Package: screen
Version: 4.0.2-4.1
Symptom:
When logging in from Windows XP + PuTTY with a default configuration
and launching screen on my Debian Sarge CoLinux installation, lines
that are longer than the screen fail to wrap properly.
In addition, typing bash command lines longer than the screen width
causes very confusing corruption that even CTRL-L will not cure
(often leaving me working blindly trying to echo a complex 140
character command-line into a file so I can edit it with vim).
When I commented out the following line in the default Debian screenrc:
# Change the xterm initialization string from is2=\E[!p\E[?3;4l\E[4l\E>
# (This fixes the "Aborted because of window size change" konsole
# symptoms found in bug #134198)
# termcapinfo xterm 'is=\E[r\E[m\E[2J\E[H\E[?7h\E[?1;4;6l'
The problem goes away. Vim itself also suffers from random drawing bugs
from time to time, although I cannot yet confirm if it is due to the
above.
I doubt the global default Debian screenrc is the correct place to fix a
bug that affects a single terminal emulator, given that it appears to be
causing one of the most popular emulators on the planet to fail
terribly.
Thanks for an otherwise excellent package!
David.
--
... do you think I'm going to waste my time trying to pin physical
interpretations upon every optical illusion of our instruments? Since when
is the evidence of our senses any match for the clear light of reason?
-- Cutie, in Asimov's Reason
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