Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2012 10:11:10 -0400 From: Michael Butler <imb@protected-networks.net> To: George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Odd ttyvN TERM settings Message-ID: <4FF994FE.5040605@protected-networks.net> In-Reply-To: <4FF99270.9010002@m5p.com> References: <4FF99270.9010002@m5p.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/08/12 10:00, George Mitchell wrote: > Up through FreeBSD 8.x, the ttyvN consoles had a TERM setting of cons25. > On FreeBSD 9.n, it appears to be xterm for ttyv0, but it's still cons25 > for ttyv1-ttyv8 (even though they all appear to act like xterms). Not > surprisingly, this leads to less than desirable results when trying to > run vi (or other such programs) on ttyv1 through ttyv8, unless you > remember to setenv TERM xterm. > > Why did we change from cons25 to xterm? How can we get all the ttyvNs > to get the correct TERM setting? -- George Mitchell The console driver has been replaced/updated. You likely missed updating your /etc/ttys, imb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk/5lP0ACgkQQv9rrgRC1JKkLQCeLzOuP1oCaplYpBAQIgFsU82r jwMAoKgHFQvdvSBK81Pf1wrOCuEJmkVD =YADR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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