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@ -58,8 +58,9 @@ servers)::
infocmp -a xterm-kitty | ssh myserver tic -x -o \~/.terminfo /dev/stdin
If you are behind a proxy (like Balabit) that prevents this, you must redirect the
1st command to a file, copy that to the server and run ``tic`` manually. If you
If you are behind a proxy (like Balabit) that prevents this, or ``tic`` comes
with macOS that does not support reading from STDIN, you must redirect the 1st
command to a file, copy that to the server and run ``tic`` manually. If you
connect to a server, embedded or Android system that doesn't have ``tic``, copy over
your local file terminfo to the other system as :file:`~/.terminfo/x/xterm-kitty`.
@ -87,6 +88,12 @@ Make sure the TERM environment variable, is ``xterm-kitty``. And either the
TERMINFO environment variable points to a directory containing :file:`x/xterm-kitty`
or that file is under :file:`~/.terminfo/x/`.
For macOS, you may also need to put that file under :file:`~/.terminfo/78/`::
mkdir -p ~/.terminfo/{78,x}
ln -snf ../x/xterm-kitty ~/.terminfo/78/xterm-kitty
tic -x -o ~/.terminfo $KITTY_INSTALLATION_DIR/terminfo/kitty.terminfo
Note that ``sudo`` might remove TERMINFO. Then setting it at the shell prompt can
be too late, because command line editing may not be reinitialized. In that case
you can either ask ``sudo`` to set it or if that is not supported, insert an ``env``