Re: [PLUG] GNU Screen follow-up

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

One other thing.  Depending on your distro, the version of 'screen' you 
are using and various defaults, 'vim' might look *really* bad running in 
it.  That's because screen often does not support 256 colors by default, 
which is really annoying.

See:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/gnu-screen-wont-do-256-colors-with-xterm-rxvt-mrxvt-583880/
http://www.frexx.de/xterm-256-notes/


And there's another "feature" used by 'less', 'vim,' and other tools 
that can mess with 'screen'.  It's called (confusingly enough) the 
"alternate screen".  See below.


This is in my ~/.screenrc:

# Turn on 256-colors (needs screen compiled with --enable-colors256)
attrcolor b ".I"
termcapinfo xterm 'Co#256:AB=\E[48;5;%dm:AF=\E[38;5;%dm'
defbce "on"

# http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/screen.html#Redisplay
# http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Screen
# Support alternate screens so that, for example, when you
# quit out of vi, the display is redrawn as it was before vi
# redrew the full screen. (See also vimrc)
altscreen on


Later,
JP
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