12:43 <Guest99> Hi! First time joining IRC so please excuse me if I'm not following proper etiquette. I wanted to ask around here before posting an issue. I have been trying all morning to make `foot` work with both `vis` and `visidata`, and both have the same problem: they work fine on both `ghostty` and on `kitty`, but interpret alt+[key] combinations

12:43 <Guest99> incorrectly when executed on `foot`. AFAIK, it has to do with escape sequences.

12:44 <Guest99> Could not find any related issue on both Vis's and Visidata's repos.

12:45 <Guest99> Running foot 1.22.3, -pgo +ime +graphemes -assertions

12:46 <manio_> what TERM you have set?

12:46 <Guest99> foot

12:46 <manio_> and installed proper terminfo?

12:47 <Guest99> foot-terminfo. My ncurses-term package contains nothing related to foot

12:48 <manio_> ok, you probably need to wait for someone more experienced here...

12:48 <Guest99> Thank you for trying to help!

12:49 <manio_> np

13:10 <rockorager> Guest99: see if TERM=xterm-256color

13:11 <rockorager> Some programs check for an `xterm` prefix in TERM. Both ghostty and kitty ship with `xterm` prefixed to their term (xterm-ghostty, xterm-kitty)

13:13 <rockorager> woops, see if setting that TERM value works **

13:51 <Guest99> rockorager: WTF this worked thank you!

15:05 <dnkl> Guest99: hmm, it sounds like the foot terminfo is missing

15:05 <dnkl> in most distributions, the foot-terminfo *package* contains the "foot-extra" terminfo, not "foot"

15:05 <dnkl> "foot" is normally distributed with ncurses (but may be in a non-base package, depending on distro)

15:07 <dnkl> if that's not the issue, then it's like rockorager said; application string-compares the terminfo name

15:56 <Guest99> dnkl: in void's foot-terminfo, the terminfo file seems to be built from the foot sources, so I guess it's a case of string-compare.

15:57 <Guest99> Void patches out the foot terminfo from their ncurses package. https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/commit/b1b3c4dcfd908777b3ddf065e175d086ebebc8f9

15:58 <Guest99> I've been taking a look at both vis's and visidata's sources, but I'm pretty out of my depth.

18:37 <Guest99> https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/issues/2798

18:37 <Guest99> https://github.com/martanne/vis/issues/1252