rxvt package default TERM value [Was: RXVT doesn't recognize ALT + Cursor keys]

[Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Works fine, including all keys I'm used to after I replaced the
> rxvt entries on the affected Linux system.

So, any opinions on what value rxvt should give for TERM, when the user 
has not specified a value[*].  Existing behavior on cygwin (and most 
other platforms) is to report 'xterm'.  rxvt-20050409-5 test release 
reports 'rxvt'.

--
Chuck




[*] there are five ways to specify the desired TERM value -- or any 
resource setting -- from highest priority down to lowest):
     (1) command line argument: -tn
     (2) ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources contains [**]
            (a) prog*termName where prog is the invocation name of the
                application (usually "rxvt" all lowercase)
            (b) Rxvt*termName
     (3) /etc/X11/app-defaults/Rxvt contains Rxvt*termName [***]
     (4) /etc/X11/app-defaults/Rxvt contains *termName
     (5) ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources contains
            (a) XTerm*termName
            (b) *termName


[**] cygwin's rxvt explicitly parses these files manually.  It does not 
access the xserver's resources database, even in X11 mode.  (The 
opposite behavior can be obtained by modified some macros in 
src/feature.h and src/rxvt.h, and recompiling).

[***] could be /etc/X11/locale/<locale>/app-defaults/Rxvt if locale is 
set to something, but this is untested given cygwin's (newlib's) lack of 
support for true locales.