On 3/4/2011 7:26 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: > 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 >> export RUNNING_IN_CONSOLE=1 >> export 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.
When I installed SUA (and haven't played with it yet) it for some reason set TERM=dumb in my control panel env vars. Cygwin apparently only sets it to 'cygwin' if it's initially unset, which makes sense. In addition, the native Perl readline implementation only turns on if TERM is unset or is set to 'dumb', for some reason, so I have aliases in my .zshrc to run scripts with TERM=dumb where I want the readline to be on for ActivePerl/Strawberry. -- 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
