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From: | Andrew Schulman <schulman DOT andrew AT epamail DOT epa DOT gov> |
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Subject: | Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: screen, now with 256-color support! |
Date: | Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:53:41 -0400 |
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> Andrew Schulman: > >> > TERM=3Dxterm-256color screen -T screen-256color > >> > >> Instead of specifying -T screen-256color every time, one can just put > >> 'term screen-256color' into .screenrc. =A0I'll update the docs to show= this > >> when I make the release current. > > > > Is there any reason that I shouldn't put this command into the default > > /etc/screenrc file? >=20 > 'fraid so. Prompted by this thread I wondered the same thing about > mintty: why not set TERM to "xterm-256color" by default? >=20 > Answer: because /etc/termcap doesn't know about it, and other programs > that read the TERM variable might not recognise it either. > Furthermore, user startup scripts that compare TERM to "xterm" or > "screen" would break. You're talking about setting e.g. TERM=3Dxterm-256color in the environment = by default, but I was asking whether it would cause any harm to put 'term screen-256color' into the default /etc/screenrc. Know any reason that I shouldn't? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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