- 1 year ago
Mercurial: no terminfo entry for setab/setaf
The error message "Mercurial: no terminfo entry for setab/setaf" usually occurs when you're running Mercurial (hg) commands in a terminal that doesn't support color output. Mercurial relies on terminal capabilities defined in the terminfo database to display colors, and if your terminal emulator doesn't have the necessary entries, you'll see this error.
To resolve this issue, you have a few options:
Use a different terminal emulator:
- Switch to a terminal emulator that supports color output and has the necessary terminfo entries. Examples include GNOME Terminal, iTerm2, ConEmu, or Windows Terminal. These terminal emulators should have the required capabilities for Mercurial's color output.
Set the
HGENCODING
environment variable:- Another workaround is to set the
HGENCODING
environment variable to an encoding that doesn't rely on terminal color codes. For example, you can setHGENCODING
to"UTF-8"
before running Mercurial commands:- On Windows:
set HGENCODING=UTF-8
- On Linux/macOS:
export HGENCODING=UTF-8
- On Windows:
This will disable the color output in Mercurial commands, but it should prevent the "no terminfo entry" error.
- Another workaround is to set the
Disable color output in Mercurial configuration:
- Modify your Mercurial configuration file (usually located at
~/.hgrc
orMercurial.ini
) and disable color output. Add the following lines to the file:csharp[color]
mode = never
Disabling color output will prevent Mercurial from attempting to use terminal color capabilities.
- Modify your Mercurial configuration file (usually located at
Try one of these solutions based on your preference and system setup, and the "no terminfo entry for setab/setaf" error should be resolved when running Mercurial commands.