Comment by nobleach

1 day ago

I agree. It's also true of nearly any program. If you do not set its configuration properly, it may not work as expected.

In the case of TMUX, it can be a bit annoying because it's not immediately apparent _why_ things look wonky. But I'm not sure what the solution is. Default to 256 colors?

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JdeBP  1 day ago

Indeed, the TERM environment variable actually is the configuration of "nearly any program" (excluding the ones that aren't doing explicitly terminal I/O, of course, and the bad ones that just ignore TERM and make assumptions). Set TERM wrongly, and one has set the configuration incorrectly for a whole load of programs, in one fell swoop.

  • jcgl  14 hours ago

    Well, not “nearly any program”; I believe that probing for capabilities is the preferred method these days.

    • JdeBP  12 hours ago

      I shall merely smile knowingly and tell you that no, it isn't, and you should try that with a broad range of actual terminals and terminal emulators. (-:

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