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virgoerns | 5 years ago

> Kitty should just identify as xterm like every other terminal written in the last 20 years.

This is not my experience at all. I'd say most of terminals, including modern ones, have unique terminfos and work miserably when it's not installed. Examples include ST, kitty, alacritty. On top of that we have terminal multiplexers like tmux and screen which provide their unique terminfos as well.

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sime2009|5 years ago

Then our experience diffs greatly. I can't remember the last time I saw a $TERM which wasn't 'xterm' or 'xterm-256color'.

vokep|5 years ago

I find myself in between. I've seen many terminfo's set to other things, which don't work, or have to be set every time I'm connecting to a new server which is too much extra work for every new server in my opinion. So I always just set it to xterm-256color and forget it

mrighele|5 years ago

I use rxvt-unicode which sets $TERM to "rxvt-unicode-256color," which is not recognized by a number of server to which I have to connect to from time to time.

Fnoord|5 years ago

xterm-256color-italic user here (comments in text editor are italic).