Bug#363576: vim uses incorrect escape sequence "device-control-string"?

[James Vega]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:47:58PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:40:01PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Any hint on how to make gnome-terminal set TERM=gnome?
> 
> hmm - iirc, it hardcodes the value.  Perhaps it (like rxvt) sets $COLORTERM,
> which xterm does not do.  I recall some discussion from people who made a
> workable wrapper script which used that check.

Yup, $COLORTERM == gnome-terminal.

> > > Try TERM=gnome
> > 
> > No error messages then. Now we only need to convince the gnome people
> > that they aren't fully xterm compatible...
> 
> One would assume they know that...

It'd make sense that they default $TERM to gnome if they cared about the
fact that they weren't fully xterm compatible.  They've had a comment in
the code since 2002 about making that configurable instead of
hard-coding it.  Guess that wasn't revisited.

To be honest, I'm not sure why they just don't set $TERM to 'gnome'.
That's the termcap entry for *their* terminal emulator. *shrug*

James
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