On: Colorize Your CLI

[bacon_waffle]

> since my FreeBSD servers don't have a termcap file for alacritty, when I ssh into my FreeBSD servers my backspace key doesn't work (along with a lot of other things).

A hack I've got in .zshrc for this problem:

  function ssh {
   if [[ "${TERM}" = alacritty ]]; then
    env TERM=xterm-256color /usr/bin/ssh "$@"
   else
    /usr/bin/ssh "$@"
   fi
  }

[ac29 → bacon_waffle]

Installing the terminfo also works: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/blob/master/INSTALL.m...

[fiddlerwoaroof → ac29]

Yeah, I create a .terminfo directory in my home folder on any box I ssh to and make sure it has the terminfo for the terminal I use.