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Date:      Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:05:44 +0100
From:      Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Does 9.0 honor TERM settings
Message-ID:  <20120824080544.9bca4996.steve@sohara.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208240056270.1299@abbf.ynefrvtuare.pbz>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208240056270.1299@abbf.ynefrvtuare.pbz>

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On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 01:18:23 -0500 (CDT)
Lars Eighner <luvbeastie@larseighner.com> wrote:

> 
> Does 9.0 honor TERM settings?
> 
> It appears to me it does not.  Although I set TERM=cons25l1 in .profile
> (running bash) and have verified that it is set to that value with SET,
> it appears to me that the function keys are mapped to weird xterm-like
> strings instead of their ANSI values (example: F7 = E[18~ not E[S).

	The TERM environment variable is supposed to describe the terminal
not control it.

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