[Bug 1210995] [NEW] bashrc doesn't consider *-256color TERMs to be color

[Spike Grobstein]

Public bug reported:

When opening up a login session on an Ubuntu server, if the terminal is
256 color, the bashrc does not consider it to have color support, and
the prompt is not colorized.

Examples of this are when `TERM` is set to `xterm-256color` or `screen-
256color` (as when connecting from a `tmux` session).

Typically, I modify the bashrc so the color prompt section looks like
the following:

# set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we "want" color)
case "$TERM" in
    xterm-color) color_prompt=yes;;
    *-256color) color_prompt=yes;;
esac

This has affected me since I've been using any 256color terminal
emulator in every version of ubuntu since 10.04.

So, in summary, when I ssh to a machine with TERM=xterm-256color, I
expect my prompt to be green, but it shows up as the default terminal
color. changing TERM to xterm-color fixes this, but I don't get full-
color vim.

** Affects: bash (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  bashrc doesn't consider *-256color TERMs to be color

Status in “bash” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  When opening up a login session on an Ubuntu server, if the terminal
  is 256 color, the bashrc does not consider it to have color support,
  and the prompt is not colorized.

  Examples of this are when `TERM` is set to `xterm-256color` or
  `screen-256color` (as when connecting from a `tmux` session).

  Typically, I modify the bashrc so the color prompt section looks like
  the following:

  # set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we "want" color)
  case "$TERM" in
      xterm-color) color_prompt=yes;;
      *-256color) color_prompt=yes;;
  esac

  This has affected me since I've been using any 256color terminal
  emulator in every version of ubuntu since 10.04.

  So, in summary, when I ssh to a machine with TERM=xterm-256color, I
  expect my prompt to be green, but it shows up as the default terminal
  color. changing TERM to xterm-color fixes this, but I don't get full-
  color vim.

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