On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 21:18:15 -0400 Thomas Dickey <dic...@his.com> wrote:
> 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. > Hello. Thanks, this works for me. I was wondering if others did not have the same problem, since I use only standard settings for the console (except that I use csh/tcsh instead of sh). Regards, Oliver
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