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Date: | Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:29:47 -0400 |
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Subject: | Re: Problem with mintty-0.4.1-1 and orpie |
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Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:25:09 +0100 Andy Kope wrote: > > > > There is no documented way in mintty to change the TERM environment before > > the shell is started. > > There's a bit in the TIPS section of the manual on how to set any > environment variable using the shell's -c option, e.g.: > > mintty sh -c "TERM=xterm-256color emacs" > OK. When I wrote my comments, I had been thinking about the shell (which ever one the user chooses) itself and had not thought of using 'sh -c' on it. The following works: mintty sh -c "FOO=baz /bin/bash --norc --noprofile" bash-3.2$ echo $FOO baz However, with this approach there is this side effect that users should probably be aware of: bash-3.2$ echo $SHLVL 2 > From the 0.4.0 release announcement: > > - MinTTY now has its own identity, instead of pretending to be an old > xterm. The ^E answerback string is "mintty", the ^[[c primary device > attribute command reports a vt100, and the ^[[>c secondary DA command > reports terminal type 77 (ASCII 'M') and version 400. The TERM > variable remains set to "xterm" though, to avoid termcap/terminfo trouble > I could not find this description in the manual page for mintty or in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/mintty-0.4.1.README. I assume that you will add this information to the documentation when you want users to be able to make use of it. -- 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
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