Re: screen TERM environment problem after upgradation

[Sadrul Habib Chowdhury]

* J. Bakshi had this to say on [03 Feb 2010, 09:26:05 +0530]:
> Dear list,
> 
> I have the following setting in .screenrc from the beginning
> 
> ``````````````
> shell -$SHELL
> 
> # for locale charset
> setenv LC_CTYPE en_US.UTF-8
> setenv TERM xterm
> 
> hardstatus alwayslastline
> hardstatus string '%{= kW}%-Lw%{= Gk}%50>%n%f* %t%{= kW}%+Lw%< %{=
> Gk}%-=%D %d %M %Y %c:%s%{-}'
> 
> # detach on hangup
> autodetach on
> 
> ``````````````````````````
> 
> I have upgraded my suse box from 11 to 11.1 and the screen version is
> now screen-4.0.2-162.35
> 
> I have found that vim is not working properly under screen and "echo
> $TERM" reports
> 
> `````````
> screen
> ``````````
> 
> Where it should be xterm according to .screenrc. If I set the variable
> manually with "TERM=xterm" then the problem is solved but screen is not
> taking the value from .screenrc. Any clue why it is not working with the
> upgraded screen ?

Instead of setting the TERM variable, try using the 'term' command for
screen.

4.0.2 is very very old. If possible, I would highly recommend upgrading
to 4.0.3.

Sadrul