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Then our experience diffs greatly. I can't remember the last time I saw a $TERM which wasn't 'xterm' or 'xterm-256color'.
by sime2009 6y ago
Then our experience diffs greatly. I can't remember the last time I saw a $TERM which wasn't 'xterm' or 'xterm-256color'.
- mrighele 6y agoI use rxvt-unicode which sets $TERM to "rxvt-unicode-256color," which is not recognized by a number of server to which I have to connect to from time to time.
- JdeBP 6y agoThere's a whole story about that, part of which is that at the time terminfo had to cater for old systems where there's a limit on the length of a terminal type name. But the same applies as for a missing kitty terminfo entry. The terminfo database is designed so that one can copy records around, and one can put them in a directory in one's home directory if one does not have administrative access to update the system database. Debian systems have had an rxvt-unicode-256color entry for approaching 10 years, now. FreeBSD for about the same. * https://sources.debian.org/src/ncurses/5.9-10/debian/rxvt-unicode.ti/ https://sources.debian.org/src/ncurses/5.9-10/debian/rxvt-un... * https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/share/termcap/termcap?r1=211066&r2=218844 https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/share/termcap/termcap?r...
- Fnoord 6y agoxterm-256color-italic user here (comments in text editor are italic).
- vokep 6y agoI find myself in between. I've seen many terminfo's set to other things, which don't work, or have to be set every time I'm connecting to a new server which is too much extra work for every new server in my opinion. So I always just set it to xterm-256color and forget it