[nycbug-talk] mac os termcap question

[Bob Ippolito]

On Feb 14, 2005, at 10:06 AM, steve rieger wrote:

> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>> On Feb 13, 2005, at 17:44, Dru wrote:
>>> Any of the Mac OS X users know the solution for this one:
>>>
>>> "Also one thing that would make my life a modicum eaiser, the 
>>> default setting odd OS X terminal is xterm-color. When i try to run 
>>> screen on some system (donno about ours) it whines about no termcap 
>>> entry. Could you possibly
>>> check to see if this is configged right?"
>>>
>> In Terminal, go to Preferences. Click on the Declare terminal type 
>> ($TERM) pop-up menu to change to vt100 (or whatever).
>
> if you keep it on xterm-colour you also might have vi issues, 
> (although this does not afect vim)
>
> as stated change it to vt100 works for me no problem

It's a trade-off, of course.  ls -G won't be colored if you are using 
vt100.

-bob