Re: terminal capability problem when login therough screen

[Erik Osheim]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 09:31:38AM +0530, J. Bakshi wrote:
> But #1 actually set the TERM environment in local box. Is not there any
> command option in screen to set TERM just for screen session and not
> globally ? I have tried with "screen -T xterm" but found the cursor is
> not working properly with vim; where setting TERM environment locally
> solved the issue. Any workaround with "screen -T" ?

>From the point of view of screen, these two things should be the same.

# first
$ export TERM=xterm
$ screen

# second
$ TERM=xterm screen

You could create an alias to screen that does the second thing.

-- Erik