Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fixing the TERM mess

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 18:50:10 +0200 ivan <pifko@szm.sk> 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.

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