Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 22:56:46 +0000 From: Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munk.nu> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Best terminal type Message-ID: <20031126225646.GB37786@users.munk.nu> In-Reply-To: <20031126154532.GA1924@tyr.systh.org> References: <20031126154532.GA1924@tyr.systh.org>
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On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 04:45:32PM +0100, Martin Moeller wrote: > Hello, everyone! > > I'm a little bit confused because of the enormous number of > terminal types available. I'm mainly working on the console > so cons25 is my default terminal type. Yesterday, I used > putty/ssh to connect to my machine and used elinks on it. > With astonishment I realised that elinks used different > colours and looked very nice. So I wondered why it didn't > show up like this when using my console. putty was using > "linux" as terminal type, not cons25. Happily, I set "linux" > my preferred terminal, but now mutt's display is totally > screwed up. So guys: What terminal type to use when working > on the console? I want all the nifty eye-candy! ;-) On a console my TERM env variable is set to cons25 as well, but mutt still uses colours ok as I have them set up in my .muttrc file. elinks doesn't use any colour the way I have things setup when I use it in a console, although in a putty session it does (using TERM=xterm) - not sure how to resolve that. -- Jez Hancock - System Administrator / PHP Developer http://munk.nu/
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