Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well it didn't occur to me till it happened... > When using Eterm and then ssh'ing into an older Mandrake box > vim complains about not knowing Eterm... and even worse my Solaris box > just flat out disconnects me telling me that it doesn't know my terminal > type. > > Considering that the vast majority of boxes out there aren't going to > have the Eterm terminfo/termcap I'm starting to wonder if we shouldn't > make the default terminal xterm? As far as I can tell it doesn't harm > anything to do so. It'd be a small tweak in the default themes: > term_name Eterm > becomes > term_name xterm > > I think we'll end up with a lot of very confused users if we don't do > this. The change won't stop power users from making a user.cfg and > putting: > begin misc > term_name Eterm > end misc > > in in to override our setting. And I don't think the vast majority of > users are going to know how to install a termcap and terminfo... > > What does everyone thing about this?
I'm not quite sure I like this idea...on one hand, in the rare servers I tend to ssh into that I don't have 9.x installed on I just export TERM=xterm and everything works. And I don't have any more non-linux boxes, so I don't have the problem you have...and I think that the people that wouldn't know to read the manpage and create a user.cfg to set term_name xterm would be the same people that wouldn't be ssh'ing into any boxes, if you that makes sense. So...I think I'd have to say that...better leave it as it is. Vox -- Pain is the gift of the gods, and I'm the one they chose as their messenger.... For info on safety in the BDSM lifestyle http://www.the-vox.com Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr.
