From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: Default TERM to cygwin?
18 Mar 1998 10:23:48 -0800
Message-ID: <Eq10C4.540.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@bbc.com>
References: <01BD5295 DOT 01915B70 AT gater DOT krystalbank DOT msk DOT ru>
Reply-To: cgf AT bbc DOT com
To: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

In article <01BD5295 DOT 01915B70 AT gater DOT krystalbank DOT msk DOT ru>,
Sergey Okhapkin  <sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru> wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> I'd like to propose that we change the default TERM environment variable
>> to 'cygwin', add an entry for 'cygwin' to /etc/termcap, and create a
>> terminfo entry for 'cygwin'.  Then, if the environment variable TERM is
>> not set, set it to 'cygwin' by default.
>>
>> We could keep the definition as 'linux', but I think this is a little
>> unclear and also might strap us for future console changes.  For
>> instance, I've added the ability to set the console title bar using
>> xterm escape sequences.  Although, I don't think that there is any
>> provision for defining this using termcap or terminfo, other changes in
>> the future might require a new entry for cygwin.
>
>I think it would be much better to implement some additional xterm's 
>features in fhandler_console and set this variable to "xterm" or 
>"xterm-color". I don't want some cygwin-specific terminal type!

Why not?  It obviously didn't bother the linux people.

Although, actually I wonder if just setting TERM=xterm will work right now,
as is.
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