Re: screen-256color terminfo entry?

[Stephane Chazelas]

On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:50:45PM -0400, cga2000 wrote:
> [..]
[...]
> when displaying a man page such as xterm's I lose some and even text:
> 
> in the OPTIONS paragraph:
> 
> "-132   Normally,  the VT102..."
> 
> becomes:
> 
> "132ormally,  the VT102.."
> 
> This behavior is reproduced on the following lines and on other man
> pages.
> 
> when I switch back to TERM=xterm-256color, without leaving my screen
> session, these pages display correctly.
> 
> Have you experienced anything like this?
[...]

No.

What is your pager?

Could you try with:

<Ctrl-A>H (to save the output in ~/screenlog.n)


PAGER=cat man xterm

and

PAGER=cat TERM=xterm-256color man xterm

And look at the corresponding line in screenlog.n.

Here, in any case, I get:

      -^H-1^H13^H32^H2    Normally, the VT102 DECCOLM escape

or if I reenable grotty's sgr that debian disabled (in
/etc/groff/man.local).

       ^[[1m-132    ^[[22mNormally, the VT102 DECCOLM
       (note that \e[22m is in no terminfo entry, so I guess
       grotty doesn't use the terminfo database)

So, it may be your pager that behaves differently in one case
and the other, but I can't think why. I can see no problem with
either of more, less, most, pg or w3m here.

Also what is the value of $TERM before you start screen? It
is important that it is xterm-256color so that screen knows the
terminal capabilities.

-- 
Stéphane