Re: rxvt vs xterm keybindings

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

  > > It seems that quite often users of the rxvt terminal set the TERM
  > > variable to "xterm". This causes Emacs to load term/xterm.el. 
  > > Unfortunately the strings emitted by the different keys are
  > > not the same for xterm and rxvt, so loading term/xterm.el is not very
  > > useful for an rxvt user.
  > 
  > I'm tempted to say that they get what they ask for.

I think that the default is to set TERM to xterm... (at least it seems
to be so on my systems). One possible reason for this is that on
proprietary unixes there's no terminfo entry for rxvt (and the rxvt
terminfo entry is not correct on GNU/Linux anyway, nor it is correct
in the rxvt original package...).