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nano Error opening terminal: xterm-256color.

Hi,

I have installed OSx Lion 10.7, on MacBook Air, now when i try to use nano, i get that error

$ nano Error opening terminal: xterm-256color.

Also when try to use less

less a

WARNING: terminal is not fully functional

If i change terminal preferences from "xterm-256corlor" to "xterm-color" these issues go away,

but that also means my terminal will not support 256 color, so, any ideas of what is going on?

Bests regards,

Jose

XCode-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on Jul 21, 2011 7:48 AM

20 replies

Didn't have that option. OS X 10.7 hides all of those directories and they were not visible in Time Machine.

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I think this was fixed circa 10.7.1 or something. There is no need to hack up your system anymore.

@jhulme. Thank you! Lifesaver!

Level 9

51,628 points

retsil wrote:

I've been using OSX lion for over a year now and I'm suprised that this issue with terminal has not been fixed.

It was fixed almost immediately. This thread is well over a year old.

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thx worked

nano Error opening terminal: xterm-256color.