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The realized upon terminal most likely properly corresponds to TERM=iTerm.app or similar anyway.

JdeBP
– JdeBP

2020-06-17 09:16:21 +00:00
Commented Jun 17, 2020 at 9:16
@Thomas I don't specifically set the TERM for shells inside my tmux session. In this case, my EC2 just have that TERM setup that way, I didn't. If I understand your answer correctly, then I'll have to make sure the TERM variable in my EC2 is set to 'screen' or 'tmux'. Is there anyway to avoid this? I don't want to have to do this for all the machines I connect to and potentially mess up for other people who access these machines.

Tran Triet
– Tran Triet

2020-06-17 17:29:05 +00:00
Commented Jun 17, 2020 at 17:29
Ideally your TERM is set on the local machine and passed through to the remote machines. The only reason you should be setting TERM in a shell's initialization is for the (rare) case that you' re connecting via something that is unable to provide this information.

Thomas Dickey
– Thomas Dickey

2020-06-17 18:33:03 +00:00
Commented Jun 17, 2020 at 18:33
Right now, I don't specifically set TERM for my EC2 instances. From your answer, I understand that I should set the TERM on my laptop shell inside TMUX to be 'screen' or 'tmux'. And that's it. Is that correct?

Tran Triet
– Tran Triet

2020-06-19 18:44:04 +00:00
Commented Jun 19, 2020 at 18:44

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