On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 04:56:58PM -0500, David Champion wrote:
> That said, I occasionally change my $TERM from xterm to something I
> like, just to get rid of the alternate (application-mode?) screen
> setting. But there are better ways of doing this (xterm -ti vt100, or
> modifying a private copy in $TERMINFO); I'm just lazy.
or better yet, it's a popup entry in XFree86 xterm.
I set my $TERM manually for one of these reasons:
a) the actual $TERM isn't propagated to the shell from where I'm
logged in.
b) to work around broken applications/libraries that can't handle
the terminfo.
c) testing...
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