So I was using screen on my newly installed Dapper when I find that backspace is having an identity crisis.
When I hit backspace on the command line, it says “wuff wuff” and I need to ^h to delete.
Fine. I can live with that. However, neither backspace nor ^h works while editing files in Vim.
I can’t live with that.
The solution I found was to alias the screen command to set the TERM variable to screen before running screen:
alias screen=’TERM=screen screen’
I don’t know why that works, but it works beautifully.
Ignorance IS bliss!
January 25, 2007 at 8:46 am
good post – filled my coffee break
October 31, 2007 at 2:19 am
It worked for me. No more barking screen.
And you’re perfectly right: ignorance, sometimes, is bliss.