On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:39:33PM -0500, Jeremy Schneider wrote:
> Hi, newbie issue here:
>
> I rsh from a Cygwin bash shell window on a windows box to a Gentoo box.
> The value of $TERM is "cygwin". When I attempt to vi a file, I get,
> "cygwin: Unknown terminal type".
>
> My googling (so sue me, Google(tm)) reveals that if I set my TERM variable
> to "linux", things work better. For example, see
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-06/msg00412.html. The operative word
> here is "better". It doesn't work quite right. But a possibly more
> informative post
> (http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2000-08/msg00781.html) talks about
> adding knowledge of the cygwin terminal type to the terminfo system.
>
> But doesn't Gentoo use terminfo? I see that there is a terminfo entry for
> the cygwin terminal in /usr/share/terminfo/c/cygwin. But there is also a
> linux terminal definition in /usr/share/terminfo/l/linux. Why is linux OK,
> but cygwin is not recognized? As I looked more, I saw that there is a
> termcap entry for linux, but not for cygwin, so it seems like Gentoo is
> using termcap, not terminfo. Is that right? If so, why?
>
> I located a termcap entry for cygwin
> (http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-bugs/2000/09/19/0001.html), and added
> that to /etc/termcap, and lo and behold, it works! Yahoo!
>
> What's going on here? Isn't it better to use terminfo rather than termcap?
> How do I make it use terminfo? Do I need to specify a USE variable and
> recompile? If so, which one?
>
> Thanks much for your patience and help.
>
> -Jeremy
Jeremy,
What version of vi are you using? (might be nvi, elvis, vim) I
don't know if any USE variable settings, but vims should compile
with terminfo support rather than termcap if it is available.
- richard
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