On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 18:50:10 +0200 ivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | That'd also solve the cases where a terminal changes right | > | beneath a running application. That | > | happens during attaching a screen session. | > | > No it doesn't. Screen provides a virtual terminal with lots and | > lots of capabilities. It then reduces them itself internally to | > what it thinks the underlying term supports -- again, this is done | > via terminfo, so if you're running screen on xterm you're running a | > crippled screen. | | So, screen advertises the same capabilities to the starting apps | regardless the terminal the screen is being run on?
Yes. | Or it advertises reduced capabilities according the terminal it's | currently attached to? No. | As for the former, I don't think that would work. If an app chooses a | multi color style cuz screen is able to handle it, but then screen | tries to reduce it to mono. That's exactly what happens. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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