Re: [gentoo-dev] Fixing the TERM mess

[Georgi Georgiev]

maillog: 23/08/2005-16:57:28(-0400): Olivier Crete types
> I though about this thing last night, and frankly, I think its a lost
> cause. I remember that during the Gnome 1.x era, gnome-terminal used to
> set TERM=gnome (at least it did on Red Hat) and they had the proper
> termcap/terminfo entries. But they ended up going back to TERM=xterm,
> probably because it caused problems for their users, like login into
> anything else and being reduced to the lowest possible common
> denominator (like logging into a Solaris system and being reduced to
> non-visual mode by vi). And by the way, Solaris 2.8 still does not know
> about rxvt.
>
> As a gnome-terminal user, I've never had problems with anything that
> tried to use advanced xterm crap... probably because no uses them. If
> you want X stuff, just use a real X application (like gvim...). I'm
> strictly opposed to crippling my terminal use in the most common cases
> (such a logging into a non-Gentoo system) for one or two legacy
> applications.
>
> In the era of massive sshing, we have to forget terminfo and new
> terminal types. We should understand xterm to mean a basic x terminal
> and not the application from X.org.

Oh, come-on, just do "TERM=xterm ssh your.solaris.box" when you really
need to.  Or, recalling Ciaran's opening post to this thread, put your
terminfo in ~/.terminfo (was it?) on those few machines.

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