From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 24 07:05:47 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9AAB1065673 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 07:05:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from uk1rly2283.eechost.net (relay01a.mail.uk1.eechost.net [217.69.40.75]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7802C8FC1D for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 07:05:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [31.186.37.179] (helo=rpi-1.marelmo.com) by uk1rly2283.eechost.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1T4ntO-0004aP-3j for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:01:18 +0100 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.marelmo.com) by rpi-1.marelmo.com with smtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1T4nyB-0000JN-Ny for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:06:15 +0100 Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:05:44 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20120824080544.9bca4996.steve@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.3 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0) X-Face: %]+HVL}K`P8>+8ZcY-WGHP6j@&mxMo9JH6_WdgIgUGH)JX/usO0%jy7T~IVgqjumD^OBqX, Kv^-GM6mlw(fI^$"QRKyZ$?xx/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Auth-Info: 15567@permanet.ie (plain) Subject: Re: Does 9.0 honor TERM settings X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 07:05:47 -0000 On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 01:18:23 -0500 (CDT) Lars Eighner wrote: > > Does 9.0 honor TERM settings? > > It appears to me it does not. Although I set TERM=cons25l1 in .profile > (running bash) and have verified that it is set to that value with SET, > it appears to me that the function keys are mapped to weird xterm-like > strings instead of their ANSI values (example: F7 = E[18~ not E[S). The TERM environment variable is supposed to describe the terminal not control it. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/