Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SSH xterm not working properly during install

2020-07-08 Thread james

On 7/8/20 10:05 PM, james wrote:

On 7/8/20 9:48 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:

On 2020-07-08, Walter Dnes  wrote:


Today I decided to ssh into the install, and cut + paste stuff into
an ssh xterm into the install.� This went flying along really fast
until I went to emerge after having updated make.conf.� I got a slew
of weird errors.


I've been installing Gentoo that way for almost 20 years and never had
a problem.� I very rarely use xterm though -- I used aterm for years,
switched to rxvt, and then to urxvt.


It turns out that make.conf was majorly butchered after I had done
some "simple" edits over ssh.� This seems to be a terminfo problem, so
it may apply to more than just nano.


--
Grant





x11-misc/urxvtconfig

might be useful to you

https://github.com/daedreth/URXVTConfig

hth,
James



AND 'rich' looks like it picks up color to fancy features, if somebody 
figures out how to set it up

on gentoo:

https://pypi.org/project/rich/


"Render rich text, tables, progress bars, syntax highlighting, markdown 
and more to the terminal "


This one has been on the 'todo' list for me for a while.

hth,

James





Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SSH xterm not working properly during install

2020-07-08 Thread james

On 7/8/20 9:48 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:

On 2020-07-08, Walter Dnes  wrote:


Today I decided to ssh into the install, and cut + paste stuff into
an ssh xterm into the install.  This went flying along really fast
until I went to emerge after having updated make.conf.  I got a slew
of weird errors.


I've been installing Gentoo that way for almost 20 years and never had
a problem.  I very rarely use xterm though -- I used aterm for years,
switched to rxvt, and then to urxvt.


It turns out that make.conf was majorly butchered after I had done
some "simple" edits over ssh.  This seems to be a terminfo problem, so
it may apply to more than just nano.


--
Grant





x11-misc/urxvtconfig

might be useful to you

https://github.com/daedreth/URXVTConfig

hth,
James



[gentoo-user] Re: SSH xterm not working properly during install

2020-07-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-07-08, Walter Dnes  wrote:

> Today I decided to ssh into the install, and cut + paste stuff into
> an ssh xterm into the install.  This went flying along really fast
> until I went to emerge after having updated make.conf.  I got a slew
> of weird errors.

I've been installing Gentoo that way for almost 20 years and never had
a problem.  I very rarely use xterm though -- I used aterm for years,
switched to rxvt, and then to urxvt.

> It turns out that make.conf was majorly butchered after I had done
> some "simple" edits over ssh.  This seems to be a terminfo problem, so
> it may apply to more than just nano.

--
Grant