Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 16:36:30 -0400 From: Joseph Mingrone <jrm@ftfl.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem with terminal capabilities when using terminal from within emacs Message-ID: <CANRUcdBtESZGEY2EUBC4tVZEFRbjoW8mx9-K7JZ7bEi5wodFFA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CANRUcdBOtFzB8FZUnBOpbGFYVE0jVMqzs0pLNUpsuXU80-puxg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANRUcdBOtFzB8FZUnBOpbGFYVE0jVMqzs0pLNUpsuXU80-puxg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 13:50, Joseph Mingrone <jrm@ftfl.ca> wrote:
> From within emacs, if I invoke a new multi-term buffer with C-c c, the
> TERM environment variable is set to eterm-color and a TERMCAP variable
> is also set and
> everything works fine. =C2=A0However, if I ssh to a remote host from with=
in
> this buffer, only the TERM variable remains set and the keybindings
> don't work. =C2=A0If I manually set the TERMCAP variable nothing changes.
>
> Is there =C2=A0a way to ssh to a remote host from within a multi-term
> buffer and have the terminal capabilities work out?
>
> I'm running emacs 23.3 on 8-STABLE.
>
I think I have a solution for anyone running into the same problem.
Any comments or suggestions are welcome.
Add the entry for eterm-color (copied below) to /usr/share/misc/termcap.
# cd /usr/share/misc && mv /usr/share/misc/termcap.db
/usr/share/misc/termcap.db.bak
# cap_mkdb termcap
# Termcap entry for eterm-color
eterm-color|Emacs term.el terminal emulator term-protocol-version 0.96:\
:am:bs:mi:pt:xn:\
:Co#8:co#166:li#48:pa#64:\
:@7=3D\E[4~:AB=3D\E[4%dm:AF=3D\E[3%dm:AL=3D\E[%dL:DC=3D\E[%dP:\
:DL=3D\E[%dM:DO=3D\E[%dB:IC=3D\E[%d@:LE=3D\E[%dD:RI=3D\E[%dC:\
:UP=3D\E[%dA:al=3D\E[L:bl=3D^G:cb=3D\E[1K:cd=3D\E[J:ce=3D\E[K:\
:cl=3D\E[H\E[J:cm=3D\E[%i%d;%dH:cr=3D^M:cs=3D\E[%i%d;%dr:dc=3D\E[P:=
\
:dl=3D\E[M:do=3D^J:ei=3D\E[4l:ho=3D\E[H:im=3D\E[4h:kD=3D^[[3~:\
:kN=3D\E[6~:kP=3D\E[5~:kb=3D^?:kd=3D\EOB:kh=3D\E[1~:kl=3D\EOD:\
:kr=3D\EOC:ku=3D\EOA:le=3D^H:md=3D\E[1m:me=3D\E[m:mk=3D\E[8m:mr=3D\=
E[7m:\
:nd=3D\E[C:op=3D\E[39;49m:r1=3D\Ec:rc=3D\E8:sc=3D\E7:se=3D\E[27m:sf=
=3D^J:\
:so=3D\E[7m:ta=3D^I:ue=3D\E[m:\
:up=3D\E[A:us=3D\E[4m:
--=20
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