From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Keller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs and screen Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 15:07:50 +0000 (UTC) Organization: the UPL Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302277502 19371 80.91.229.12 (8 Apr 2011 15:45:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 15:45:02 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 08 17:44:57 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q8Drk-0002VI-M2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 17:44:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45872 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q8Drj-0007cV-8n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:44:56 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news-transit.tcx.org.uk!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 56 Injection-Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 15:07:50 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="rK2+4GYM3fRd8nicqn/qzg"; logging-data="4702"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18dHqQ+g6KEtszYko0SLVuM" User-Agent: tin/1.9.5-20091224 ("Lochruan") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.32-30-generic (i686)) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QgAfAgjbaWsRX+dqHU3ERYX87mI= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:186601 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:80710 Archived-At: Lake Shore Dr wrote: > Congratulations. Screen is an application that is really worth making > it work. You just dettach/reattach your session at home/work/wherever > and never stop what you are doing. Yeah, I hadn't really used screen before even though I'd been a unix user for a very long time. Now that I've started using it, I'll likely use it everywhere. > Also, what were you writting in .screenrc? 'term xterm' or 'term "xterm"' > with double quotes? To me 'term "xterm"' gives the right value of the > $TERM variable. I was using in my .screenrc: term xterm >From the man page for screen: --------------------------------------------------------------------- term term In each window's environment screen opens, the $TERM variable is set to "screen" by default. But when no description for "screen" is installed in the local termcap or terminfo data base, you set $TERM to - say - "vt100". This won't do much harm, as screen is VT100/ANSI compatible. The use of the "term" command is discouraged for non-default purpose. That is, one may want to specify special $TERM settings (e.g. vt100) for the next "screen rlogin othermachine" command. Use the command "screen -T vt100 rlogin othermachine" rather than setting and resetting the default. --------------------------------------------------------------------- I thought the double quotes were just literal specifers for the values, not actually required. The entry for 'termcap' below the above entry gives some examples like this: termcap xterm* LP:hs@ termcap vt100 "" l0=PF1:l1=PF2:l2=PF3:l3=PF4 So I thought term xterm was ok. I just tried it with term "xterm" and got the correct functionality. I appreciate your suggestion! Thank you! -pete