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Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 06:42:16 +0100
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: screen, now with 256-color support!
From: Andy Koppe <andy DOT koppe AT gmail DOT com>
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Andrew Schulman:
> Instructions for starting screen with 256 color support are in
> /usr/share/doc/screen/README.Cygwin. =C2=A0In brief, you have to invoke s=
creen
> as
>
> TERM=3Dscreen-256color screen

I don't think that's quite right. Screen needs to be told what
terminal it is itself running in. This means "xterm-256color" for
xterm, PuTTY and MinTTY, and "rxvt-256color" for rxvt.

Inside screen, however, the TERM variable does need to be set to
"screen-256color" to tell termcap/terminfo-using programs that they
are running in a 256-color-enabled screen. The -T option can be used
for that. So, for example:

TERM=3Dxterm-256color screen -T screen-256color

Andy

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