From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 3 7:10:23 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 3 07:10:22 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50B5037B402 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 07:10:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f03FAI915371; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 09:10:18 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 09:10:17 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Dave VanAuken Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: control keys in sh and ee for arrow keys/backspace Message-ID: <20010103091017.A10367@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20010103131814.A14763@oyeindia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.13i In-Reply-To: ; from "Dave VanAuken" on Wed Jan 3 03:13:31 GMT 2001 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: dan@dan.emsphone.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jan 03), Dave VanAuken said: > call me lazy but I generally use csh as a shell and enjoy the use of > arrow keys to navigate and scroll though recent commands... > > two items I am seeking solutions for: > > 1. when using FreeBSD's editor (ee I believe) it performs admirably > when using the local keyboard, but spits out the ^[[A,B,C,and D > characters when accessing it through Win2k's telnet window... is this > an annoyance on fbsd's part or the W2k telnet application? Any > work-arounds? Try manually setting your TERM variable to "vt100"; I know win98's telnet claims to be "ansi" but isn't by a long stretch. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message