Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:45:11 GMT From: crocket <crockabiscuit@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/152146: Virtual consoles ignore kb and kD termcap entries. Message-ID: <201011112045.oABKjBKg026384@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201011112050.oABKo8VE080030@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 152146 >Category: misc >Synopsis: Virtual consoles ignore kb and kD termcap entries. >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Nov 11 20:50:07 UTC 2010 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: crocket >Release: 8.1-RELEASE >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD elisa.muffinplace.com 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:36:49 UTC 2010 root@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 >Description: In cons25 termcap entry, kb=^H and kD=^?. So I made cons25d entry and kb=\177 and kD=\E[3~ in cons25 in it. cons25d entry inherits cons25 and overrides kb and kD. After adding cons25d in /etc/termcap and logout and login, the changes weren't applied. After some inspection, I found out that csh is not aware of kb and kD. It was obviously from the output of "telltc" builtin of csh. I guess csh's ignorance of kb and kD caused the problem. But xterm and genom-terminal covered for csh's ignorance of kb and kD. Can FreeBSD virtual consoles be modified to deal with kb and kD even if a shell is not aware of it? >How-To-Repeat: Ctrl-v + backspace or del would print out the key symbols(^?, ^H, and etc) >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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