On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 20:35:06 -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote: > On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 19:06:51 PDT (-0700), imorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 15:33:29 -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote: > > > This is pretty much the same request as an old mailing list thread > > > > > > http://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=134073696320230&w=2 > > > > > > for almost exactly the same reason: some machines don't have > > > new-enough terminal info databases to support newer TERM strings > > > ("rxvt-unicode-256color" in my case). As such, I'd like to be able to > > > override the TERM that is forwarded to some machines from my > > > .ssh/config. > > > > > > The solutions proposed in that post don't work well for me because I > > > like having a shared .bashrc and don't want to go making it super long > > > just to have a big list of hosts that don't support "*-256color". > > > > > > > Perhaps you could use tput to test for terminal capabilities rather than > > keeping a list of hosts. > > > > I've had to deal with a somewhat different issue; preferring to suppress > > color support. I used to use "tput colors" to test for the number of > > colors supported, and re-define TERM as needed. More recently, I taken > > to simply overriding the terminfo definitions for those terminal types > > that I use by creating a ~/.terminfo directory or ~/.terminfo.db > > database. > > These are all hosts that are managed by the university, so I've got to > have some username overrides in there anyway. This way just seemed > like the path of least resistance. > > Just doing a "tput colors" doesn't seem to do it for me: > > $ tput colors > tput: unknown terminal "rxvt-unicode-256color" > > I could just check for a "tput" failure and redefine the terminal, I > don't really like overriding TERM because I worry about how it'll > interact with screen and such. > > I think overriding the terminfo database is probably the best way to > do this, I didn't know that was possible! Unfortunately it doesn't > appear to work on OSX, but that might just be user error... OS X may need a ~/.terminfo.db file rather than a ~/.terminfo directory. On Linux (RHEL and SLES) ~/.terminfo works, whereas on OpenBSD you need ~/.terminfo.db. I haven't experimented with OS X. -- Iain Morgan _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
