As I mentioned in another post, I had also changed company Mac laptops which I use to ssh in and run screen. I have now found that "git diff" by itself dumps all sorts of uninterpreted ESC sequences to the screen, but if I pipe that into less (git diff|less), less eats them up.
The Mac 10.old (something less than 10.9) has a term type of xterm-color. 10.9 splits that into xterm-16color and xterm-256color. I tried various different TERM values and none of them clear up the ESC and gray color, but my bet is now on the new Mac Term doing something unfriendly. Since this 10.9 Term didn't show the problem until I started the Linux ssh+screen with the new Mac, that must be where the problem is. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o