From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: Default TERM to cygwin? 18 Mar 1998 06:55:25 -0800 Message-ID: <01BD5295.01915B70.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru> To: "cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com" 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! -- Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos Moscow, Russia Looking for a job