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Re: screen, 256color mode and ssh
From: |
Trent W . Buck |
Subject: |
Re: screen, 256color mode and ssh |
Date: |
Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:59:04 +0000 (UTC) |
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Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) |
Sonia Hamilton <address@hidden> writes:
> On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 22:27 +0100, Mika Fischer wrote:
> > Another problem is that I sync my configuration files for bash, screen,
> > etc. via SVN. Since my .screenrc contains the "term screen-256color"
> > line it won't work very well on systems where this terminfo entry is not
> > installed. Screen will revert to vt100 in this case.
> >
> > Is there a possibility to set the "screen-TERM" only to screen-256color
> > if it's available, or is there a possibility to divide the screen
> > configuration, so that I could only use this on my local host and not on
> > the others? Or is there another way out of this mess?
>
> A 'dirty hack' way of doing these would be to detect in the
> remote .bashrc the system, and swap to a different .screenrc
Specifically, something like this:
if ! tput longname >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
then case "$TERM" in
screen.*|screen-*) TERM=screen;;
xterm-*) TERM=xterm;;
esac
fi