Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 21:18:15 -0400 From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cursor keys not working on console Message-ID: <20130809011815.GA3360@aerie.jexium-island.net> In-Reply-To: <20130808195304.34c34319@munin.geoinf.fu-berlin.de> References: <20130808195304.34c34319@munin.geoinf.fu-berlin.de>
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--y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 07:53:04PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: > The cursor keys on the consoles in freebsd CURRENT (no X11 virtual > consoles, the FreeBSD consoles!) do not work for me. >=20 > I use tcsh as the main shell. > As set by default in /etc/ttys, the console's terminal type is xterm. > Switching to=20 >=20 > setenv TERM cons25 >=20 > solves the problem, but the menus in ports via make config look ugly > and more ugly, but they are unusable with the setting "TERM=3Dxterm". >=20 > What is wrong here? Why are the cursor keys not working in the > console/ports menu as expected when using tcsh/csh as default shell? =66rom infocmp (cons25 vs xterm): kcub1: '\E[D', '\EOD'. kcud1: '\E[B', '\EOB'. kcuf1: '\E[C', '\EOC'. kcuu1: '\E[A', '\EOA'. It's probably=20 http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#cursor_appmode You would probably find TERM=3Dxterm-noapp and improvement. --=20 Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlIEQ1cACgkQcCNT4PfkjtvhdQCeLaLES8L4UmH/Z78CzX7zU1Cb SoQAn2M91T1kh+R5a6fOTX9pjb3cfgkF =+30a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6--
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