[u-u] Terminal Emulation

[David Gilbert]

On 5/9/2011 6:52 PM, Jim Mercer wrote:
> On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 06:32:58PM -0400, Vance Shipley wrote:
>> Putty is not a terminal emulator, which is what you really need.
> it seems to work quite nicely for me as 'xterm' or 'vt220'

I have never had a huge problem with putty and even fairly complex
terminal emulation (like, say, emacs).  Some people make the mistake
that putty is vt100 ... which it isn't.  It's xterm.

You might want to have a look at what your OS and your .bashrc set as
the default TERM variable.  xterms will always set the TERM variable
when they spawn a shell... but you may be arriving at your shell prompt
with a blank TERM or one that is set somewhat randomly.