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tmux 3.3 and macOS command line editing issue

micheal@~ % clear
terminals database is inaccessible
micheal@~ % echo $TERM
tmux-256color

https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/3203
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/102748

The tl;dr is that the first release of tmux 3.3 on Homebrew had a bad default-terminal set for using it with macOS. This has been fixed by setting the following in .tmux.conf:

set-option -g default-terminal screen-256color

https://github.com/Chealion/dotfiles/commit/d0adef739b54df96b60c56b2774a2a0efa752bdd