Emacs term-mode colors

Question

I used have my term-term-name set to vt1000 and my bashrc set to xterm this worked fine except that colored output did not work.

Then i set the term-term-name to screen and my .basrc to screen that make the coloring work but if i type a message thats longer than the line it does not move to the next line but goes to the beginning of the same line.

Which emulation should i use to make both lines and color work? This is happening on OS X when on linux(debian) it works.

Answer 1

Try setting your term to xterm-color. Mine is set to urxvt because that is the terminal emulator I use. When I wasn't using that, I had it set to xterm-color and did not have the behaviour you described.