256 color skins and screen. Was: Midnight Commander 4.8.13 released

[Morten Bo Johansen]

On 2014-09-09 Egmont Koblinger wrote:

> You can compare the environment of the "correct" and "incorrect" mc
> inside screen (e.g. in case of Linux, by something like  tr '\0' '\n'
> < /proc/xxx/environ | sort... and then diff).

> Look for TERM, COLORTERM, TERMCAP... who knows what else.

Now, I pinned it down. The variable TERMCAP needs to be unset.
I now start mc via a screen hotkey like this:

  bind C screen -t 'mc' env TERMCAP= mc -x

and everything is okay.

I don't really understand it because I did not set any TERMCAP
variable before, nor did I have any "termcapinfo" stanzas in my
.screnrc.

Could this be something worth mentioning in a faq, or is it
possibly some error on my part that I have now corrected in a
clumsy fashion?

Thanks,

Morten


> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Morten Bo Johansen <mbj at spamcop.net> wrote:
>> On 2014-09-09 Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:

>>> On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 14:31 +0200, Egmont Koblinger wrote:

>>>> I'm not familiar enough with screen to help you beyond this point.  It
>>>> doesn't properly set $TERM, but I don't know how to make it set it.

>>> Maybe something horrible like

>>>   bind C screen -t 'mc' TERM=screen-256color mc -x

>> I tried:

>>   bind C screen -t 'mc' env TERM=screen-256color mc -x

>> but no cigar.


>> Thanks,

>> Morten


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