From f5757053144627072421376776ac959f70af72d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Iain Patterson <me@iain.cx>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:17:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Try to handle unrecognised terminals.

Fall back to various degrees of xterm if the inherited TERM variable
isn't usable.

This should be thought of as a last resort.  In general it is a bad idea
to try to overrule TERM.
---
 .profile.d/TERM.bashrc | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.profile.d/TERM.bashrc b/.profile.d/TERM.bashrc
index 5bb800c..7294ab8 100644
--- a/.profile.d/TERM.bashrc
+++ b/.profile.d/TERM.bashrc
@@ -1 +1,15 @@
 export TERMINFO=${PROFILE_HOME:-~}/.terminfo
+
+# Cygwin MinTTY.
+[ "$OS" = "Cygwin" -a "$TERM" = "xterm" ] && export TERM=putty-256color
+
+# Check the terminal is valid.
+while [ -z "$(tput longname 2>/dev/null)" ]; do
+  case $TERM in
+    xterm-256color) export TERM=xterm-88color;;
+    xterm-88color) export TERM=xterm-color;;
+    xterm-color) export TERM=xterm;;
+    xterm) break;;
+    *) export TERM=xterm-256color;;
+  esac
+done
-- 
2.7.4