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Date:      Tue, 27 May 2003 09:11:01 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Screen and VI
Message-ID:  <20030527141101.GD16884@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <200305271352.h4RDq3f4025804@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
References:  <20030526065838.GC28797@gothmog.gr> <200305271352.h4RDq3f4025804@clunix.cl.msu.edu>

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In the last episode (May 27), Jerry McAllister said:
> > I usually fire up screen(1) in my console ttys or xterm windows,
> > and then set TERM=vt220.  This is monochrome, but all the arrow
> > keys work fine.  I even managed to make ALL the special keys like
> > Insert, DEL, Home, End, PageDown and PageUp to work 'as expected'
> > in Emacs with the following bindings in my .emacs file:

When you're inside a screen session, don't mess with TERM at all. 
Screen presets TERM and TERMCAP to precisely what it supports and
nothing more.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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