Re: 256 colors - xterm, screen, slrn

* Christian Ebert on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 12:24:02 +0100
> * cga2000 on Monday, October 29, 2007 at 20:19:26 -0400
>> On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 09:08:29AM EDT, Christian Ebert wrote:
>>> bashrc:
>>> if [ -n "$STY" ]
>>>   unset TERMCAP
>>>   export TERMCAP
>>> fi
>>> 
>>> screenrc:
>>> term "xterm-256color"
>>> bind S screen -t slrn 1 bash -l -c slrn
>>> #                       ^^^^^^^ force login
>>> 
>>> If someone has this working in a more elegant way, I'd be curious
>>> to know about it.
>> 
>> Not sure it's more "elegant" but I put yet another bash wrapper in my
>> ~/bin directory that unsets & exports TERMCAP and then invokes slrn.
> 
> That's what I resorted to as well. I don't even have to export.
> 
>> So now I have something like:
>> 
>> screen -t slrn  $SHELL -c "slrn-wrap"
> 
> screen -t slrn slrn-wrap
> 
> is sufficient here.

The following tip by JED was just posted on
news.software.readers:

screen -t slrn 1 env -u TERMCAP slrn

On Mac OS X, "env" has no "-u" option, so I changed it to:

screen -t slrn 1 env TERMCAP= slrn

No wrapper script anymore.

c
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