> Andrew Schulman: > >> > TERM=xterm-256color screen -T screen-256color > >> > >> Instead of specifying -T screen-256color every time, one can just put > >> 'term screen-256color' into .screenrc. I'll update the docs to show this > >> when I make the release current. > > > > Is there any reason that I shouldn't put this command into the default > > /etc/screenrc file? > > 'fraid so. Prompted by this thread I wondered the same thing about > mintty: why not set TERM to "xterm-256color" by default? > > Answer: because /etc/termcap doesn't know about it, and other programs > that read the TERM variable might not recognise it either. > Furthermore, user startup scripts that compare TERM to "xterm" or > "screen" would break.
You're talking about setting e.g. TERM=xterm-256color in the environment by default, but I was asking whether it would cause any harm to put 'term screen-256color' into the default /etc/screenrc. Know any reason that I shouldn't? -- 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
