Screen not dropping down a line

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Minor annoyance with the Screen linux utility; when connected to a Linux (Fedora) box from my Mac (using Terminal), when I'm writing out a long command, usually when the text reaches the edge of the terminal window, the cursor drops down a line and continues the command. However, if I'm currently on the bottom row of the terminal, and run off the edge, instead of adding a new line and pushing everything up, it blanks the line and puts the cursor at the beginning of the row. If I grab the terminal window and resize its width, the command automatically pops down to a second row as the screen refreshes. Is there a way to get the command to break to a second row properly without resizing the window? Some configuration setting in Screen to get it to play nicely with Mac's Terminal?

Best Answer

Hmm, screen's auto-set terminal type of screen works for me (OS X 10.5 & 10.6, connecting to a FreeBSD host). I've got no idea why it's not working for you, but you can try forcing the terminal type within screen to xterm-color and seeing if that helps.

You may also want to try different preferences for the Terminal.app (Advanced Settings -> Describe terminal as:") -- Again describing the terminal as xterm-color should work fine (that's what mine is set for), but if a different terminal type works and doesn't introduce any broken behavior no harm no foul...

Alternatively try reset ; stty sane within screen and see if that makes it happy -- It's possible something you ran within screen mucked about with terminal settings and left you in a screwy state...

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