On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 06:06:56AM +0200, tastytea wrote > On 2020-07-07 22:02-0400 "Walter Dnes" <waltd...@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. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
