terminfo
Working around Apple's broken terminal infrastructure to make tmux colours work correctly in curses applications.
Use macOS's tic
Make sure the terminfo compiler on PATH is macOS's own:
$ which tic
/usr/bin/tic
Install definitions
Then download and unpack the definitions, and compile the interesting ones:
curl -LO https://invisible-island.net/datafiles/current/terminfo.src.gz
gunzip terminfo.src.gz
tic -xe alacritty-direct,tmux-256color terminfo.src
Trust, but verify
The resulting output is written to ~/.terminfo:
$ tree ~/.terminfo/
/Users/luke.carrier/.terminfo/
├── 61
│ ├── alacritty -> /Applications/Alacritty.app/Contents/Resources/61/alacritty
│ └── alacritty-direct -> /Applications/Alacritty.app/Contents/Resources/61/alacritty-direct
└── 74
└── tmux-256color
Check individual definitions with infocmp -x $name.
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