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Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:31:04 -0500
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On 3/3/2011 7:21 AM, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 3 March 2011 10:10, Rafael Kitover wrote:
>> I was wondering if there's a way in my .zshrc to determine if the shell
>> is running in mintty or in a regular windows console.
> 
> Check $TERM. It defaults to 'xterm' in mintty and 'cygwin' in the console.
> 
> Andy

Thank you, that works for me, 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.

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