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This package represents the parent for all terminals.
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In older versions of tcell we had (a couple of) different
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external file formats for the terminal database. Those are
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now removed. All terminal definitions are supplied by
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one of two methods:
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1. Compiled Go code
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2. For systems with terminfo and infocmp, dynamically
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generated at runtime.
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The Go code can be generated using the mkinfo utility in
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this directory. The database entry should be generated
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into a package in a directory named as the first character
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of the package name. (This permits us to group them all
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without having a huge directory of little packages.)
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It may be desirable to add new packages to the extended
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package, or -- rarely -- the base package.
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Applications which want to have the large set of terminal
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descriptions built into the binary can simply import the
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extended package. Otherwise a smaller reasonable default
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set (the base package) will be included instead.
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