Fix Emacs + urxvt color weirdness on Linux

dotfiles/Xresources

@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ URxvt*boldFont: xft:Inconsolata:bold
 URxvt.letterSpace: -1
 
 URxvt*termName: rxvt
-
+URxvt*iso14755: False
 URxvt.urgentOnBell: true
 ! URxvt*foreground:                     color
 ! URxvt*color0:                         color

dotfiles/zshrc

@@ -5,7 +5,17 @@ export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 export VISUAL="emacs -nw"
 export EDITOR="$VISUAL"
 export ITERM_24BIT=1
-export TERM=xterm-256color
+export TERM=rxvt-256color
+
+# Colors get weird with Emacs in urxvt. I use urxvt on Linux
+# so I need to export rxvt-256color and copy the rxvt-256color terminfo
+# to the right location (see package installer for details).
+# This will need to be changed if you use a different terminal emulator.
+if [[ "$OSTYPE" == "linux-gnu" ]]; then
+  export TERM=rxvt-256color
+else
+  export TERM=xterm-256color
+fi
 
 alias emacs='emacs -nw'
 alias irssi='TERM=screen-256color irssi'

scripts/sysinstall/install_packages.sh

@@ -88,3 +88,8 @@ sudo locale-gen
 # copy services/10-physlock to /etc/pm/sleep.d/10-vlock
 # replacing USERNAME with their name via sed.
 # remember to use sudo
+
+# Copy terminfo so that text editors can find it
+mkdir ~/.terminfo
+nkdir ~/.terminfo/r/
+ln -s /usr/share/terminfo/r/rxvt-unicode ~/.terminfo/r/rxvt-unicode