From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: TERM/termcap question
15 Nov 1998 19:17:34 -0800
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To: Corinna Vinschen <corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de>,
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On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 02:49:41AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> [...]
>> 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.
>
>I'm using tcsh, and I have the effect, that the setting
>TERM=linux (regardless of using termcap or ncurses) in notty
>mode doesn't move the rest of the line to the right, if I insert
>characters.
>TERM=ansi works better.

I have no problems with TERM=linux with any program that uses terminal
escape sequences.  The emulation is supposedly written to be the same as
the linux console so if it is not operating in that manner then there is
a bug.  It sounds like there may be a bug with character insertion.

I don't know why setting CYGWIN=tty would affect this.

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