[vox-tech] Cygwin's Identity Crisis

[Peter Jay Salzman]

On Tue 08 Mar 05,  9:08 AM, Richard S. Crawford <rscrawford at mossroot.com> said:
> 
> And behold, Peter Jay Salzman flailed at a keyboard and did expound:
> 
> >    export TERM=linux
> 
> That didn't work,

Wierd!  I was really expecting it to.  I am HIGHLY interested in the exact
wording vi gave you when you tried to run vi with TERM set to linux.  I
guess that means Cygwin's terminfo doesn't support the "linux" terminal.
Considering what Cygwin is, perhaps that does make sense.  Dunno.

> but:
> 
>      export TERM=xterm
> 
> worked just fine.

Yeah, sorry bout that.  I was going to suggest that too.  Then I got side
tracked by writing about csh and forgot to mention it.  I'm still kind of
shocked that vi didn't recognize the linux terminal.

Pete

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