Re: [Mingw-users] Running ncurses-linked MinGW apps from MSYS Bash

[Eli Z. <el...@gn...>]

> From: "Earnie" <ea...@us...>
> Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 18:04:21 -0500
> 
> > From: Eli Zaretskii 
> > 
> > When a MinGW program linked with libncurses is run from the MSYS Bash, it
> > sees TERM=cygwin in the environment, and libncurses then uses the terminfo
> > data for that terminal, instead of using its internal Windows console driver.
> > However, using the cygwin terminfo entry doesn't work
> > well: e.g., the "clear to end of line" sequence ("\E[K" according to "infocmp
> > cygwin") appears verbatim instead of actually erasing text.
> > 
> > I'm guessing that this doesn't work because the necessary magic for interpreting
> > these sequences is inside the MSYS DLL, and so won't work in any non-MSYS
> > program.  Is that correct?
> > 
> 
> I believe so but does TERM=xterm help?

No, it doesn't.

Anyway, how is that different from unsetting TERM before running such
programs?

Or are you saying that it's safe to set TERM-xterm permanently in the
MSYS Bash session?  I always thought that it is set to "cygwin" for a
reason.  If not, then perhaps unsetting it is the solution?