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

[Walter Dnes]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 06:06:56AM +0200, tastytea wrote
> On 2020-07-07 22:02-0400 "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
>
> >   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.  But see...
> > https://serverfault.com/questions/329154/ssh-garbling-characters-in-vim-nano-on-remote-server
> > https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/1436
> >
> >   I don't understand the workings of terminfo so my 3-part question
> > is...
> >
> > 1) Can I do an incantation on the laptop (install machine) to make it
> > understand my desktop's xterm?
>
> Your 2 hyperlinks mention that executing `export TERM=xterm-color` on
> your laptop should work around the issue.

  Thanks, I missed that.  I'll try again and see how it goes.

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications