This is the mail archive of the cygwin mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: mintty what $TERM setting should I use?


On Feb  6 01:22, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, All!
> 
> If I understand correctly, mintty is based on PuTTY code.
> However, the PuTTY terminal capabilities are slightly different than of xterm,
> and terminfo database have separate profiles for putty/-vt100/-256color.
> My question is, what TERM should I use when advertising my caps to a remote
> system?
> So far, I've had success with xterm-256color, I'm just wondering, if I should
> change it?

xterm is ok.


Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat

Attachment: pgp9ArPvEUbRY.pgp
Description: PGP signature


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]