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On Tuesday, May 4 at 03:59 PM, quoth Jamie Griffin:
> There are quite a few entries in /etc/termcap already for xterm-*,
> including xterm-color.
Good!
> I tried setting TERM=xterm-color in ~.cshrc (obviously using the
> correct environment setting syntax for csh) but it made things worse
> by mangling up the display on the console of my FreeBSD machine, and
> didn't improve the display on the Mac either. Perhaps i did that
> wrong?
Probably not.
First of all, your console is obviously NOT an xterm, so pretending
that it IS an xterm will produce bad results (for obvious reasons);
for that reason (among others), it's almost always a bad idea to
unconditionally set your TERM in your cshrc. This is one of those
environment variables that is supposed to be set correctly by each
terminal (whether it's your console or your GUI terminal or whatever),
and then passed along by ssh whenever you connect to a remote system
(the reason ssh passes the TERM setting along is that TERM is supposed
to describe the terminal that is being used, so that console
applications (such as mutt) know how to correctly manipulate your
terminal).
As far as why setting TERM to xterm-color messed up your ssh
connections as well... what's most likely the issue is a disagreement
among your various systems over what constitutes xterm-color. On some
systems, "xterm-color" is a synonym for xterm-256color, while on
others its a synonym for xterm-16color or something even more
restricted. I believe it's an issue of philosophy: should the
xterm-color termcap file reflect the local system's xterm and its
maximum capabilities, or should the xterm-color termcap file represent
the minimum color xterm's capabilities. Since many systems default to
the max-capabilities of their own copy of xterm, I find that it's
usually more useful to be specific about what kind of xterm I'm using.
So, I almost always use xterm-16color as my TERM setting when using
xterm, because that's enough colors for me and because most color
xterms can handle 16 colors---many cannot handle 256 colors, and if
you try to use 256 colors with an xterm that can only handle 16,
you'll probably get weird-looking results.
What terminal program are you using on your Mac? Apple's Terminal or
an honest-to-god xterm or something else?
~Kyle
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It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
-- Margaret Bonnano
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