[Pkg-urxvt-maintainers] Bug#630976: Bug#630976: rxvt-unicode-256color: TERM is too long for gnu screen

[Ryan Kavanagh]

reassign 630976 screen
forcemerge 621804 630976
affects 630976 rxvt-unicode
thanks

Hi Jason,
Thanks for the bug report.

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 07:32:23AM -0400, Jason Woofenden wrote:
> The solutions that spring to [my] mind are to shorten that TERM
> variable (and terminfo file) and/or patch gnu screen.

Seeing that the problem lies with screen, it would be preferable to fix
it.

> For me screen is most important when run on remote systems, so my
> vote is for the shortened TERM variable for better compatibility
> with other systems running vanilla gnu screen.

If you can convince upstream to shorten the TERM variable, I'm willing
to apply the change in Debian, either by backporting the patch or
uploading their next release.

Kind regards,
Ryan

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