On Sat, Feb 01, 2020 at 05:21:30PM +0000, Bernd Edlinger wrote: > On 2/1/20 6:12 PM, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 01, 2020 at 03:43:20PM +0000, Bernd Edlinger wrote: > >> I seem to remember him saying that he always has to configure with > >> --with-diagnostics-color=never, and the URLs are on top of that. > >> But there was no configure option for that, which, given his explanation, > >> made immediately sense to me. > >> > >> In the case of the xfce terminal, the color thing was always working fine, > >> but beginning with last october, the warnings look just terrible. > >> > >> If that assumption turns out to be wrong, we can easily move that check > >> from > >> the auto_color to the auto_url code, or add more terminals which are > >> of that kind. > > > > For me colors work just fine in screen, it really depends on which > > terminals one is attaching the screen from. > > URLs don't work, but show up exactly as if they were disabled, no visual nor > > accoustic problems with those (and work fine in gnome-terminal which is > > recent). > > That said, my TERM is actually screen.xterm-256color rather than just screen > > (and xterm-256color in gnome-terminal). > > Okay, thanks. That is a strong indication that there is no need > to interfere with screen, which proves that any auto-disabling should > have a very specific terminal detection logic.
Jakub says that he tested with a recent gnome-terminal. That works, of course. Mnay other terminals will not, and switching what terminal is attached to your screen session will not work well either, as far as I can tell. Segher
