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points by rocmcd 2 days ago | 0 comments

It's actually the remote machine that isn't working, but I get the frustration. What I did to fix this is to override the environment variables in your SSH config like this:

Host * SetEnv TERM=xterm-256color

[–] spurgu 13 hours ago

For me that wasn't enough, I added:

    Host *
        SetEnv TERM=xterm-256color
        SendEnv COLORTERM TERM_PROGRAM TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION

[–] exographicskip 1 day ago

That’s a neat trick! Didn’t know setting env vars was possible in ssh configs

[–] nasretdinov 1 day ago

Not all environment variables will be passed through (depends on the server configuration), but stuff like TERM should