From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 28 10:50:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.wanadoo.nl (smtp.wanadoo.nl [194.134.193.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2DCD37B719; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:50:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steveo@eircom.net) Received: from ams-gw.sohara.org (p611.vcu.wanadoo.nl [194.134.201.139]) by smtp.wanadoo.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA21232; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 19:50:39 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 19:50:36 +0100 From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" To: "Jonathan Belson" Cc: mvh@ix.netcom.com, lnb@FreeBSDsystems.COM, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strangeness with xterm Message-Id: <20010228195036.69735985.steveo@eircom.net> In-Reply-To: <00a601c0a1a5$79d74240$650e850a@innovisiongroup.com> References: <01022703121505.44481@panda.FreeBSDsystems.COM> <20010228162928.0E005E6ACA@netcom1.netcom.com> <00a601c0a1a5$79d74240$650e850a@innovisiongroup.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.4.60 (GTK+ 1.2.8; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE; i386) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:42:23 -0000 "Jonathan Belson" wrote: JB> > seems to be linked to the up and down scrolling keys. When scrolling JB> up, many JB> > times vi goes into insert mode and puts in an A and when scrolling JB> down, it JB> > will put in B's and C's. Addtiionally, the number pad keys will not JB> input This used to be a very common problem in curses on serial terminals where the arrow and function keys generate escape sequences, in order to detect an escape assuptions had to be made about the timing of the characters when this went wrong the escape was seen and then the rest of the sequence appeared as typed input. Given that reset fixes it, there is probably something in the terminal initialisation going astray. Which version of X and xterm are you using and what is TERM set to ? Do you run the xterm with the login shell option set (-ls parameter or loginShell set or equivalent). If so try commenting out the tset in your .login and see if that helps. -- Life is complex - it has real and imaginary parts. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message