On 2020-07-07 22:02-0400 "Walter Dnes" <[email protected]> wrote:
> […] > > It turns out that make.conf was majorly butchered after I had done > some "simple" edits over ssh. This seems to be a terminfo problem, so > it may apply to more than just nano. But see... > https://serverfault.com/questions/329154/ssh-garbling-characters-in-vim-nano-on-remote-server > https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/1436 > > I don't understand the workings of terminfo so my 3-part question > is... > > 1) Can I do an incantation on the laptop (install machine) to make it > understand my desktop's xterm? Your 2 hyperlinks mention that executing `export TERM=xterm-color` on your laptop should work around the issue. Kind regards, tastytea
