Subject: Re: proper terminal type for tcsh under Cygwin?
From: Steve Kelem <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:04:09 -0800

What do you get in a tcsh shell when you type "echo $term"?

Steve

Chris Faylor wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 06:32:35PM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> >On Mar 21,  1:52pm, [email-masked] (Steve Kelem) wrote:
> >>set term=cygwin yields no insert mode when you move the cursor into the
> >>middle of a word.  The new characters overwrite the old characters, but
> >>a C-r shows that the new characters really were inserted.
> >
> >I know this is suboptimal, but you can use telltc to figure out what
> >the bad entries, and settc to fix them.  The editor in tcsh will work
> >properly with most termcap entries empty, but it will be less
> >efficient.
> >
> >When you come up with a working version you can store it in a file or
> >put it in your TERMCAP environment variable.
>
> FWIW, I don't see this problem at all.  Inserting a character works
> correctly for me.  You should not have to set the terminal type.  It
> should be automatic.
>
> cgf
>
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