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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
