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Installing GNU Screen on OS X in Homebrew

Sadly, I found that the screen that comes with OS X does not support 256 colors. Starting with this article GNU/Screen with 256 colours in Mac OS X, I built GNU Screen as follows.

git clone git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/screen.git
cd screen/src
mkdir -p /opt/etc
mv etc/etcscreenrc /opt/etc/screenrc
./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/screen/3.6.0  --enable-colors256 --with-sys-screenrc=/opt/etc/screenrc
make
make install
brew link screen

Now I can run screen and see that I have 265 colors.

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