X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4D711B41.3030601@cpan.org> Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 12:02:57 -0500 From: Rafael Kitover Reply-To: rkitover@cpan.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110221 Thunderbird/3.1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Detect mintty in .zshrc? References: <4D6F690F.9010100@cpan.org> <4D6FDE68.8040705@cpan.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 3/4/2011 7:26 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 3 March 2011 18:31, Rafael Kitover wrote: >> I put this block at the top of my .zshrc: >> >> if [ "$TERM" = "cygwin" -o "$TERM" = "dumb" ]; then >> export RUNNING_IN_CONSOLE=1 >> export TERM=cygwin >> fi >> >> later I switch on "$RUNNING_IN_CONSOLE" to see if I'm in a real console. > > How come you need to guard against TERM==dumb? Cygwin shouldn't set it to that. When I installed SUA (and haven't played with it yet) it for some reason set TERM=dumb in my control panel env vars. Cygwin apparently only sets it to 'cygwin' if it's initially unset, which makes sense. In addition, the native Perl readline implementation only turns on if TERM is unset or is set to 'dumb', for some reason, so I have aliases in my .zshrc to run scripts with TERM=dumb where I want the readline to be on for ActivePerl/Strawberry. -- 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