Correct usage of termcap.

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@@ -42,16 +42,17 @@ include as much of the following information as possible:
 
 Please send feature requests by email to nicm@users.sourceforge.net.
 
-* Why do you use the screen termcap inside tmux? It sucks.
+* Why do you use the screen terminal description inside tmux? It sucks.
 
-It is already widely available. It is planned to change to something else
-such as xterm-color at some point, if possible.
+It is already widely available. It is planned to change to something else such
+as xterm-xfree86 at some point, if possible.
 
 * I don't see any colour in my terminal! Help!
 
-On some platforms, common termcaps such as xterm do not include colour. screen
-ignores this, tmux does not. If the terminal emulator in use supports colour,
-use a termcap which correctly lists this, such as xterm-color.
+On some platforms, common terminal descriptions such as xterm do not include
+colour. screen ignores this, tmux does not. If the terminal emulator in use
+supports colour, use a value for TERM which correctly lists this, such as
+xterm-color.
 
 * tmux freezes my terminal when I attach to a session. I even have to kill -9
   the shell it was started from to recover!
@@ -96,9 +97,9 @@ flag may be specified when creating or attaching a client to a tmux session:
 
 * How do I use a 256 colour terminal?
 
-tmux will attempt to detect a 256 colour terminal both by looking at the Co
-termcap entry and, as this is broken for some terminals such as xterm-256color,
-by looking for the string "256col" in the termcap name.
+tmux will attempt to detect a 256 colour terminal both by looking at the colors
+terminfo entry and by looking for the string "256col" in the TERM environment
+variable.
 
 If both these methods fail, the -2 flag may be passed to tmux when attaching
 to a session to indicate the terminal supports 256 colours.
@@ -106,8 +107,9 @@ to a session to indicate the terminal supports 256 colours.
 * vim or $otherprogram doesn't display 256 colours. What's up?
 
 Some programs attempt to detect the number of colours a terminal is capable of
-by checking the Co termcap entry. However, this is not reliable, and in any
-case is missing from the "screen" termcap used inside tmux.
+by checking the colors terminfo or Co termcap entry. However, this is not
+reliable, and in any case is missing from the "screen" terminal description
+used inside tmux.
 
 There are three options to allow programs to recognise they are running on
 a 256-colour terminal inside tmux:
@@ -115,9 +117,9 @@ a 256-colour terminal inside tmux:
 - Manually force the application to use 256 colours always or if TERM is set to
   screen. For vim, you can do this by overriding the t_Co option, see
   http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/256_colors_in_vim.
-- If the platform includes it, using the "screen-256color" termcap (set
-  TERM=screen-256color). "infocmp screen-256color" can be used to check if this
-  is supported. It is possible to set this globally inside tmux using the
+- If the platform includes it, using the "screen-256color" terminal description
+  (set TERM=screen-256color). "infocmp screen-256color" can be used to check if
+  this is supported. It is possible to set this globally inside tmux using the
   default-terminal session option, or it may be done in a shell startup script
   by checking if TERM is screen and exporting TERM=screen-256color instead.
 - Creating a custom terminfo file that includes colors#256 in ~/.terminfo and using
@@ -202,4 +204,4 @@ on the Window -> Translation configuration page. For example, change UTF-8 to
 ISO-8859-1 or CP437. It may also be necessary to adjust the way PuTTY treats
 line drawing characters in the lower part of the same configuration page.
 
-$Id: FAQ,v 1.25 2009-08-05 14:56:58 nicm Exp $
+$Id: FAQ,v 1.26 2009-08-05 16:29:50 nicm Exp $