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. > > I use tcsh as the main shell. > As set by default in /etc/ttys, the console's terminal type is xterm. > Switching to > > setenv TERM cons25 > > solves the problem, but the menus in ports via make config look ugly > and more ugly, but they are unusable with the setting "TERM=xterm". > > 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?
from infocmp (cons25 vs xterm):
kcub1: '\E[D', '\EOD'.
kcud1: '\E[B', '\EOB'.
kcuf1: '\E[C', '\EOC'.
kcuu1: '\E[A', '\EOA'.
It's probably
http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#cursor_appmode
You would probably find
TERM=xterm-noapp
and improvement.
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