Re: vim syntax highlighting does not work in screen

[Aaron Griffin]

On 8/16/06, Michael Parson <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 12:21:17PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> > On 8/16/06, aladdin <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> address@hidden:~$ set|grep TERM
> >> TERM=xterm
> >
> > Is this inside screen?  screen is a terminal emulator, as is xterm.
> > The TERM setting should be set to xterm if you're using xterm, and
> > screen if you're using screen.
>
> If the screen term types were properly defined on all systems I used,
> I'd leave things set as screen, however, they're not.  I work on many
> different systems and it is just less work to set screen's term type to
> vt220 (or xterm), than to install the right bits on every box out there,
> especially ones that I only touch on rare occasion.

So, I tell you how to fix it, and your answer is "No, I'm lazy" ?

Ok, that's fine.  Copying a single /usr/share/terminfo/s/screen file
to ~/.terminfo/s/screen on a handful of machines is too much work for
me too.