Subject: bug#45824: 27.1; term/screen.el not loaded when TERM=screen.xterm-256color

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 07:51:11 +0100

Alex Hutcheson <[email-masked]> writes:

> In some common configurations, GNU Screen sets
> TERM=screen.xterm-256color.

[...]

> The TERM parsing logic is documented at
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Terminal_002dSpecific.html
> and the code is in `tty-find-type` within lisp/faces.el
>
> The simple fix would be to also consider periods to be a valid separator
> within this logic.

That does sound like a simple fix.  :-)  Are there any common TERM
values that have dots in them, though?  It does seem unlikely, in which
case this simple fix should probably work?

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