Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 17:16:17 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: $TERM woes Message-ID: <20011203171617.D35627@roman.mobil.cz>
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Hi there, I have a problem that's been bugging me for way too long, and I don't know how to solve it. I'll be more than glad if anyone can help. I'm afraid that the description will be a bit long winded, so excuse me... Also, it's not completely clear to me whether this is a blackbox, rxvt, freebsd issue, or a completely unrelated one. I used rxvt-2.6.3 with afterstep-1.8.9. All was fine. Then I switched to blackbox-0.61.1, and suddenly backspace stopped working in vim. (It also doesn't work in abook, but I started using it after I switched wmanagers, so I don't know how it behaved in afterstep.) Note that nothing else (relevant) has changed in my setup, and I can demonstrate this strange behavior with just replacing "exec blackbox" with "exec afterstep" in my .xinitrc. With $TERM set to xterm(-color) (via .Xdefaults), backspace beeps in vim. With $TERM set to rxvt, it puts ^? in the buffer. Note that this is not literal ^? you would get with ^V<BS>, this is two characters: caret and question mark. (Also, I'm not able to insert any literal control char in vim with $TERM=rxvt, but that's another story...) So, what I'm asking here is something along the lines of "WTF is going on here?", and, since I don't fully understand the principles, "where's the FM?" (I've read X(7), xterm(1), termcap(3,5), but neither addresses my problem. I learned lots of new stuff about all kinds of esoteric terminals, though.) I have other issues with the backspace and delete keys under various combinations of $TERM, bindkey settings, and vim/cmdline, but I'll leave it for later. BTW, this is on a 4.4-RELEASE cvsupped to RELENG_4 ~2 months ago. Thanks a lot for any help. -- Roman FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE 3:27PM up 41 days, 2:10, 15 users, load averages: 0.06, 0.04, 0.00 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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