Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 08:31:25 +0100 From: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: terminfo Message-ID: <CAJOYFBDQvkN%2BOogiC_AOznvNQNSwyaP%2B7k7jLCMyOFWKRFg5ng@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1392997589.1145.91.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> References: <5304A0CC.5000505@FreeBSD.org> <CAJOYFBCMS4k7pyRk2YHZm81F6iP=SApZhbCm0MO4P-pvXbTCxQ@mail.gmail.com> <1392997589.1145.91.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
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On 21 February 2014 16:46, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote: > All of that seems to assume that every terminal actually being used in > the world today is either xterm or something that emulates it. Try > using vi on a serial console on an embedded ARM board and you'll get a > quick frustrating lesson in how not-xterm a serial console is. I've yet > to find a combo of serial comms program and TERM setting that actually > works well and lets you edit a file with vi. Which, in almost all cases, is problematic due to the fact that the other side is unaware of the window size of your terminal. If you use stty(1) to set that up right on the other side, it typically works pretty good from there on. -- Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
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