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Date:      Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:11:19 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Lars Eighner <luvbeastie@larseighner.com>
To:        Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Does 9.0 honor TERM settings
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208240507390.3633@abbf.ynefrvtuare.pbz>
In-Reply-To: <20120824095533.7ff3bc23.steve@sohara.org>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208240056270.1299@abbf.ynefrvtuare.pbz> <20120824080544.9bca4996.steve@sohara.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208240308540.3282@abbf.ynefrvtuare.pbz> <20120824095533.7ff3bc23.steve@sohara.org>

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On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 03:13:09 -0500 (CDT)
> Lars Eighner <luvbeastie@larseighner.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Well, then, where is the setting that makes the F7 key send E[18~ instead
>> of the standard E[S?
>
> 	In the kernel config there's an option TEKEN_CONS25 which will build
> the console terminal emulator in CONS25 mode. You'll need a custom kernel
> of course.

I find it really interesting that this change which broke just about every
critical application I run was not mentioned in the release notes or
UPDATING.

>
> 	I'm curious though - why ? As long as TERM is set correctly
> anything that uses curses will handle the keyboard and screen correctly.

If 9.0 had not broken my most important applications, I wouldn't be asking.



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Lars Eighner
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