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Date:      Wed, 29 Apr 2020 18:21:58 +0300
From:      Yuri Pankov <ypankov@fastmail.com>
To:        Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sysutils/screen and its now default "screen.xterm-256color" terminal type
Message-ID:  <9dc5f37c-11f3-4b08-9b0c-fd45442e51ac@fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200429150458.GA1475@admin.sibptus.ru>
References:  <20200429150458.GA1475@admin.sibptus.ru>

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Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> Have you noticed that the recent versions of sysutils/screen force the
> setting of $TERM to "screen.xterm-256color"? FreeBSD does not know this
> terminal type, which leads to different errors in programs running under
> screen ("using dumb terminal" etc).
> 
> I've opened a PR
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=246029 but the
> maintainer is too quick to close it IMHO.
> 
> Does anyone care to view/comment on the PR?

$ screen --version
Screen version 4.08.00 (GNU) 05-Feb-20

Not a screen user myself, I just installed the latest screen from ports 
to check, and not seeing this behavior: without ~/.screenrc I get $TERM 
of "screen", and with "term xterm256-color" in ~/.screenrc I get exactly 
that in $TERM.

What are your other related settings? Or could it be stale system-wide 
configuration somewhere, stale patches?



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