http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1103320
http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1103320#c5
--- Comment #5 from Michael Schröder ---
"screen.xterm" is supposed to be a termcap info that is a better fit for
"xterm" than the "screen" entry. I don't think it matters much for xterm, so I
don't see why we have it.
But let's say you have a very dumb terminal 'foo' and TERM=foo. You then start
screen. With term="screen" the processes in screen will think that all fancy
capabilities are present, and screen must try to emulate/ignore stuff. With
TERM=screen.foo you can have a dumbed down entry that only includes the stuff
that works.
With '-a' you tell screen not to do this and just go with "screen".
And you don't know what remote machines have for *all* entries.
But, as said, I don't know why there's a screen.xterm entry. Did you do a
comparison with the screen entry? (Use the 'infocmp -d' command)
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