From:	cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject:	Re: TERM/termcap question
15 Nov 1998 15:17:32 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<19981115174722.A32510.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@cygnus.com>
References:	<19981114224052 DOT A27081 AT cygnus DOT com>
Mime-Version:	1.0
To:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de>,
	cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

On Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 01:00:23PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> [...]
>> I couldn't bring myself to have a product called "cygwin" use a default
>> TERM setting of "linux".
>
>I agree.
>
>> [...]
>> So the question is what should the default TERM setting be?  Should it
>> be cygwin, linux, vt100, or...?  Incidentally, the cygwin terminal
>> setting is not strictly the same as a linux console because it also
>> allows xterm escapes for setting the console title.  So, I guess that
>> another option for the terminal name is "xterm".
>
>I think, the question is, who needs the default TERM setting?
>Who is the typical user for this setting?
>The target for this default setting is the beginner, above all the
>one, who downloads cygwin stuff the first time. After installing
>full.exe he has a batch file, to start it. Now, the user has a
>standard setting of CYGWIN=.. notty ..
>
>IMHO, the user should get a default TERM setting, which reflects
>the standard windows console as near as possible.

Setting CYGWIN=tty has no bearing on this.  This is a separate
issue.  The standard setting right now should be TERM=linux
regardless of whether the user has set CYGWIN=tty or CYGWIN=notty.
In either case the terminal emulation in fhandler_console still
works.

>The file `cygnus.bat' should contain a line `set TERM=cygwin' to
>show, that a TERM setting is not unimportant.

I was proposing setting the TERM environment variable automatically.
Not everyone runs the programs via the cygnus.bat file.

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