feat: install host terminfo inside the VM on $TERM change#12
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Non-standard terminals (xterm-ghostty, xterm-kitty, …) have no terminfo entry in the base VM image, which breaks zsh/ZLE key decoding (backspace, arrow keys, …) as soon as the user shells in. Push the host's compiled terminfo into the VM via tic, cached per-VM so the limactl shell roundtrip only happens when $TERM actually changes.
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Non-standard terminals (xterm-ghostty, xterm-kitty, …) have no terminfo entry in the base VM image, which breaks zsh/ZLE key decoding (backspace, arrow keys, …) as soon as the user shells in. Push the host's compiled terminfo into the VM via tic, cached per-VM so the limactl shell roundtrip only happens when $TERM actually changes.