[ale] $TERM settings?

Michael D. Hirsch mdhirsch at mail.com
Mon May 20 15:21:12 EDT 2002


Robert L. Harris writes:
 > 
 > I'm trying to enable color in my mutt email so certain people and lists
 > will be highlighted.  This is working great.  I've found one problem
 > though.  Since I changed $TERM to either xterm-color or rxvt my screen
 > session doesn't scroll anymore.  
 > 
 > If I set $TERM on my local workstation to rxvt, ssh to the remote box, 
 > set it there I can do an "ls -lar" and scroll works great.  I can page
 > up and my local terminal with a very large scroll buffer scrolls back
 > just great.  If i start screen, no more scrolling.  I can use the screen
 > scrolling but it's much easier to use the same scroll back in all my
 > term sessions (tend to run about 8-10 at a time).

I've never been able to use page up in a terminal.  I've always used
shift-page up in all my terminals.  Does that work for you?

I just use TERM=xterm and I can scroll and use colors.

--Michael

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