Change for the initial installation of Cygwin to set the default terminal terminal 256 color

[Thomas Wolff]

Am 12.04.2024 um 11:18 schrieb Lee via Cygwin:
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 4:05 AM J M  wrote:
>> Some examples that I view that can do Cygwin better by default:
>>
>> tput colors
>> 8
>>
>> echo $TERM
>> xterm
> I made my mintty changes by point & click experimentation - if you
> want to make system-wide changes the place to do that is in
> /etc/minttyrc
>    https://github.com/mintty/mintty/wiki/Tips
>    Configuring mintty
>    For its configuration, it reads configuration files in this order:
>        /etc/minttyrc
>        ... etc.
>
> $ grep -i term .minttyrc
> Term=xterm-256color
>
> $ tput colors
> 256
>
> $ echo $TERM
> xterm-256color
Note that mintty always supports all modes, including 256 colours and
true-color (TERM=xterm-direct), regardless of the TERM setting or the
$TERM environment value. That value is only used by some applications
(like tput and apparently vim) as an indication which features to use.
Thomas

>
>> And if use vim, comparing with one Ubuntu terminal:
>>
>> I need to set "set mouse-=a" because the copy paste is difficult.
>> The colors are very bright.
>> The cursor does not look good when doing a search and moves over the yellow
>> background text.
>>
>> What settings would I need to make it look like Ubuntu's vim?
> I'd suggest doing a 'man vim' to find out where all the possible
> configuration files are & then copy them to your cygwin machine.
>
> Regards,
> Lee
>
>> El jue., 11 abr. 2024 14:36, J M  escribió:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> You can change in the initial install setup of Cygwin to set the default
>>> terminal to 256 color as Ubuntu does?