From ff569d7114292bf39cf070ecc58d8c4ddd31ee29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: nick black <dankamongmen@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 05:54:59 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] terminfo: chop off $<N> syntax #769

---
 src/lib/terminfo.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/lib/terminfo.c b/src/lib/terminfo.c
index 71dc7d7ed..5c7b01295 100644
--- a/src/lib/terminfo.c
+++ b/src/lib/terminfo.c
@@ -32,6 +32,14 @@ int terminfostr(char** gseq, const char* name){
     *gseq = NULL;
     return -1;
   }
+  // terminfo syntax allows a number N of milliseconds worth of pause to be
+  // specified using $<N> syntax. this is then honored by tputs(). but we don't
+  // use tputs(), instead preferring the much faster stdio+tiparm(). to avoid
+  // dumping "$<N>" sequences all over stdio, we chop them out.
+  char* pause;
+  if( (pause = strchr(*gseq, '$')) ){
+    *pause = '\0';
+  }
   return 0;
 }