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-===== Special Terminal Capabilities =====+====== Special Terminal Capabilities ======
  
-==== Capability Table ==== +The following table describes all terminal capabilities that are recognized  by  ''screen''  and are not in the ''termcap(5)'' manual.  You can place these capabilities in your termcap entries (in /etc/termcap) or use them with the commands ''[[commands:termcap]]'', ''[[commands:terminfo]]'', and ''[[commands:termcapinfo]]'' in your screenrc files.  It is often not possible to place these capabilities in the terminfo database.
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-The following table describes all terminal capabilities that are recognized  by  screen  and are not in the termcap(5) manual.  You can place these capabilities in your termcap entries (in ''/etc/termcap'') or use them with the commands ''termcap'', ''terminfo'', and ''termcapinfo'' in your screenrc files.  It is often not possible to place these capabilities in the terminfo database.+
  
 | LP | (bool) | Terminal as  VT100 style margins ("magic margins").  Note that this capability is obsolete because screen uses the standard ''xn'' instead. | | LP | (bool) | Terminal as  VT100 style margins ("magic margins").  Note that this capability is obsolete because screen uses the standard ''xn'' instead. |
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 | Z1 | (str)  | Change width to 80 columns. | | Z1 | (str)  | Change width to 80 columns. |
 | WS | (str)  | Resize display.  This capability has the desired width and height as arguments.  SunView(tm) example: ''\E[8;%d;%dt''. | | WS | (str)  | Resize display.  This capability has the desired width and height as arguments.  SunView(tm) example: ''\E[8;%d;%dt''. |
-| NF | (bool) | Terminal doesn't need flow control.  Send %%^S%% and %%^Q%% direct to the application.  Same as ''flow off'' The opposite of this capability is ''nx''. |+| NF | (bool) | Terminal doesn't need flow control.  Send %%^S%% and %%^Q%% direct to the application.  Same as ''[[commands:flow]] off'' The opposite of this capability is ''nx''. |
 | G0 | (bool) | Terminal can deal with ISO 2022 font selection sequences. | | G0 | (bool) | Terminal can deal with ISO 2022 font selection sequences. |
 | S0 | (str)  | Switch charset ''G0'' to the specified charset.  Default is ''\E(%.''. | | S0 | (str)  | Switch charset ''G0'' to the specified charset.  Default is ''\E(%.''. |
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 | CS | (str)  | Switch cursor-keys to application mode. | | CS | (str)  | Switch cursor-keys to application mode. |
 | CE | (str)  | Switch cursor-keys back to normal mode. | | CE | (str)  | Switch cursor-keys back to normal mode. |
-| AN | (bool) | Turn on autonuke.  See the ''autonuke'' command for more details. | +| AN | (bool) | Turn on autonuke.  See the ''[[commands:autonuke]]'' command for more details. | 
-| OL | (num)  | Set the output buffer limit.  See the ''obuflimit'' command for more details. | +| OL | (num)  | Set the output buffer limit.  See the ''[[commands:obuflimit]]'' command for more details. | 
-| KJ | (str)  | Set the encoding of the terminal.  See the ''encoding'' command for valid encodings. |+| KJ | (str)  | Set the encoding of the terminal.  See the ''[[commands:encoding]]'' command for valid encodings. |
 | AF | (str)  | Change character foreground color in an ANSI conformant way.  This capability will almost always be set to ''\E[3%dm'' (''\E[3%p1%dm'' on terminfo machines). | | AF | (str)  | Change character foreground color in an ANSI conformant way.  This capability will almost always be set to ''\E[3%dm'' (''\E[3%p1%dm'' on terminfo machines). |
 | AB | (str)  | Same as ''AF'', but change background color. | | AB | (str)  | Same as ''AF'', but change background color. |
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 | C8 | (bool) | Terminal needs bold to display high-intensity colors (e.g. Eterm). | | C8 | (bool) | Terminal needs bold to display high-intensity colors (e.g. Eterm). |
 | TF | (bool) | Add missing capabilities to the termcap/info entry.  (Set by default). | | TF | (bool) | Add missing capabilities to the termcap/info entry.  (Set by default). |
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-==== Character Translation ==== 
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-Screen has a powerful mechanism to translate characters to arbitrary strings depending on the current font and terminal type.  Use this feature if you want to work with a common standard character set (say ISO8851-latin1) even on terminals that scatter the more unusual characters over several national language font pages. 
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-Syntax: 
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-<code> 
-XC=<charset-mapping>{,,<charset-mapping>} 
-<charset-mapping> := <designator><template>{,<mapping>} 
-<mapping> := <char-to-be-mapped><template-arg> 
-</code> 
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-The things in braces may be repeated any number of times. 
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-A <charset-mapping> tells screen how to map characters in font <designator> ('B': Ascii, 'A': UK, 'K': german, etc.)   to strings.  Every <mapping> describes to what string a single character will be translated.  A template mechanism is used, as most of the time the codes have a  lot in common (for example strings to switch to and from another charset).  Each occurrence of ''%'' in <template> gets substituted with the <template-arg> specified together with the character.  If your strings are not similar at all, then use ''%'' as a template and place the full string in <template-arg> A quoting mechanism was added to make it possible to use a real ''%'' The ''\'' character quotes the special characters ''\'', ''%'', and '',''. 
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-Here is an example: 
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-<code> 
-termcap hp700 XC=B\E(K%\E(B,\304[,\326\\\\,\334] 
-</code> 
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-This tells screen how to translate ISOlatin1 (charset 'B') upper case umlaut characters on a hp700 terminal that has a german charset.  '\304' gets  translated to '''\E(K[\E(B''' and so on.  Note that this line gets parsed **three** times before the internal lookup table is built,  therefore a lot of quoting is needed to create a single '\' Another extension was added to allow more emulation: If a mapping translates the unquoted '%' char, it will be sent to the terminal whenever screen switches to the corresponding <designator> In this special case the template is assumed to be just '%' because the charset switch sequence and the character mappings normally haven't much in common. 
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-This example shows one use of the extension: 
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-<code> 
-termcap xterm XC=K%,%\E(B,[\304,\\\\\326,]\334 
-</code> 
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-Here, a part of the german ('K') charset is emulated on an xterm.  If screen has to change to the 'K' charset, '\E(B' will be sent to the terminal, i.e. the ASCII charset is used instead.  The template is just '%', so the mapping is straightforward: '[' to '\304', '\' to '\326', and ']' to '\334'. 
  

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