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@bdice bdice commented Oct 25, 2025

Currently echo $TERM gives xterm. I would like richer color support to make it easier to read rich outputs from AI agents in the shell. I was able to get export TERM=xterm-256color to help with this.

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export TERM="${TERM:-xterm-256color}"
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I'm not sure if this is the best/right way to do this. This command worked in my terminal locally but I don't know how to test if this will take effect properly without merging this PR.

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This change should go in the root image's devcontainer.json here and should probably be:

    "TERM": "${localEnv:TERM:xterm}"

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I pushed up the recommended fix, approving.

@trxcllnt trxcllnt merged commit be62493 into rapidsai:main Nov 2, 2025
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