Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2012 10:20:24 -0400 From: George Mitchell <george@m5p.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Odd ttyvN TERM settings Message-ID: <4FF99728.6040207@m5p.com> In-Reply-To: <op.wg4sh9og8527sy@pinky> References: <4FF99270.9010002@m5p.com> <op.wg4sh9og8527sy@pinky>
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On 07/08/12 10:14, Ronald Klop wrote: > On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 16:00:16 +0200, George Mitchell > <george+freebsd@m5p.com> 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 > > What is in your /etc/ttys? > > This is the ttys file on 9-STABLE on amd64: > http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/9/etc/etc.amd64/ttys?revision=225736&view=markup&pathrev=238244 > > > Regards, > Ronald. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Apparently I raced through mergemaster too fast (on two different machines, as well). That's where the problem was. Thanks for the help! -- George
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