#241 Setting TERM via environment variable

[Yoshi Spendiff]

Hi,

Raising a bug as a result of https://github.com/cbucher/console/issues/281

The default /etc/profile from Msys2 has this line:

export TERM=xterm-256color

This makes it more difficult to run Msys2 from within terminal emulators that allow setting environment variables when a CLI tool is called, like ConsoleZ.

Is it possible to have that line in /etc/profile updated to the following so that if it's passed as an environment variable it's not overwritten?

[ -n "$TERM" ] || export TERM=xterm-256color

[David Macek]

Thanks for the report.

Ideally, the line should go completely. Setting TERM=xterm* should be in mintty's responsibility. I'll need to discuss with others to determine what to do.