Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:54:44 +0100 From: Theo PAGTZIS <T.Pagtzis@cs.ucl.ac.uk> To: t.pagtzis@cs.ucl.ac.uk Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with cursor keys under vi/help with sysinstall Message-ID: <39C9CCD4.C29A399D@cs.ucl.ac.uk> References: <39C9CB12.17F34AA9@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
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Theo PAGTZIS wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been having this annoying problem since I upgraded from 3.4 to > 4.1 stable. > > Basically when I am getting into vi the cursor keys do not work > properly: for instance instead of going down I keep getting a garble > message Usage [[ > while when I an exiting vi I am getting back a 1l on std.output > > The worse is that I cannot control stand/sysinstall since any attempt to > use the cursor keys exits me from stand sysinstall > > I have another question. > > I did a make clean in /usr/src/release/sysinstall to rebuild the > sysinstall bin but when it reached a point where keymap.c was compiled > it complained that the keymaps in keymap.h were not understood. What can > I do to correct the situation > > Theo > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message Sorry to bother people but I just found what it is.. The setting of the TERM env var to xterm-color seems to mess up the key mappings somehow. If I remove the setenv TERM xterm-color (or ever setenv TERM xterm) the behaviour goes back to normal.. is there a fix for that so that we could use colorised ls?? Theo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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