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Date:      Fri, 1 Mar 2024 13:25:50 -0800
From:      Craig Leres <leres@freebsd.org>
To:        "Alfonso S. Siciliano" <alfix86@gmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portconfig vs xterm
Message-ID:  <4c5775bd-a9df-445a-bb34-8206f2eff288@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <474d3afb-4ef3-451d-851e-63017b96a481@gmail.com>
References:  <1f477b47-6a8e-4e32-889e-7f0788132953@freebsd.org> <474d3afb-4ef3-451d-851e-63017b96a481@gmail.com>

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On 3/1/24 11:53, Alfonso S. Siciliano wrote:
> On 2/4/24 04:06, Craig Leres wrote:
>> I was trying to give 13.3-BETA1 a legit tryout and ended up spending 
>> hours fighting with portconfig. In my experience it does not play well 
>> with xterm. Function and arrow keys are no-ops and unlike dialog4ports 
>> it does not allow navigation with ^P/^N. Given that that my TERM is 
>> set to xterm when I login to the *console* of my newly installed 13.3 
>> system (as when I ssh in from my FreeBSD desktop) how can my user 
>> experience be so terrible?
>>
> 
> Thank you for your report and sorry for the late reply.
> 
> I added ^P/^N to the TODO list. They will be available in the next
> version. I have just created a wiki page for feature requests and
> problems reports:
> 
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/portconfig
> 
> Please, you could add an entry in the Problems table to describe
> the problem and the steps to reproduce.
> Also you could open a PR (and/or write an email to asiciliano@)
> to investigate and to continue the discussion.

I logged into the wiki (as Craig Leres) but I do not see any options for 
making changes. I don't think I've ever made changes to the FreeBSD wiki 
before...

		Craig



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