[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: screen, now with 256-color support!

[Andy Koppe]

Andrew Schulman:
> Instructions for starting screen with 256 color support are in
> /usr/share/doc/screen/README.Cygwin.  In brief, you have to invoke screen
> as
>
> TERM=screen-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=xterm-256color screen -T screen-256color

Andy

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