on 16:07 Thu 03 Mar, Les Mikesell (lesmikesell at gmail.com) wrote: > On 3/3/2011 3:34 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > on 13:36 Thu 03 Mar, Sean Carolan (scarolan at gmail.com) wrote: > >> I really like gnu screen and use it everyday but there's one thing > >> that is a bit inconvenient, and that's the odd line wrapping and > >> terminal size issues that seem to pop up. The problem crops up when I > >> type or paste a really long command, and then go back and try to edit > >> it; the text starts to wrap over itself and you have no idea what you > >> are editing. Any fixes for this? > > > > Is your local terminal type known to all remote systems (in termcap)? > > > > I find I have to re-map $TERM to some low-common standard (e.g.: xterm) > > on many systems. Legacy Unix vendors being the most eggregious for > > this. > > I tried to forget the incompatibilities in different old terminal types > after about everything settled on xterm compatibility. Instead of > running screen, can you run a desktop session under freenx on a server > somewhere and run everything in terminal windows there (even ssh > sessions that go elsewhere)? No xlibs on our servers. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist / | Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist | When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited | Go to Krell!