From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 22 23:49:01 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C148C106566C for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:49:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dickey@saltmine.radix.net) Received: from saltmine.radix.net (saltmine.radix.net [207.192.128.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77BAC8FC18 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:49:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from saltmine.radix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by saltmine.radix.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id n9MNVNV4012257; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:31:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from dickey@localhost) by saltmine.radix.net (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id n9MNVNf5012256; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:31:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:31:23 -0400 From: Thomas Dickey To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20091022233122.GA10751@saltmine.radix.net> References: <5cfa99000910221229g4fde381fpaa77718d20520e24@mail.gmail.com> <44d44f86ot.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44d44f86ot.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Cc: Edward Peschko Subject: Re: terminal setup issues on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:49:01 -0000 --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 05:22:42PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Try setting the terminal type to "screen" or "vt100" (which is what > screen claims to emulate, although it understands even more extensions > than xterm). Better yet, don't set it *at all* and let ssh carry the > environment value through from the other side. hmm - no (screen's escape sequences generally are a subset of xterm - I can recall large chunks missing, and at the moment don't see any significant counter-examples - it _does_ have a handful of rarely-used termcap capabilities that you may be referring to ;-). --=20 Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (SunOS) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFK4OqMtIqByHxlDocRAhZ1AJ9hpvldwuTXlY5xl3iEE/Ryr5J42ACeKj7l EzMShb5JiHkaEHydouUkcEw= =3rQx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK--