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Re: Detect mintty in .zshrc?

On 3 March 2011 18:31, Rafael Kitover wrote:
> I put this block at the top of my .zshrc:
>
> if [ "$TERM" = "cygwin" -o "$TERM" = "dumb" ]; then
> Âexport RUNNING_IN_CONSOLE=1
> Âexport TERM=cygwin
> fi
>
> later I switch on "$RUNNING_IN_CONSOLE" to see if I'm in a real console.

How come you need to guard against TERM==dumb? Cygwin shouldn't set it to that.

Andy

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