Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2012 16:14:23 +0200 From: "Ronald Klop" <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Odd ttyvN TERM settings Message-ID: <op.wg4sh9og8527sy@pinky> In-Reply-To: <4FF99270.9010002@m5p.com> References: <4FF99270.9010002@m5p.com>
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On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 16:00:16 +0200, George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com> wrote: > Up through FreeBSD 8.x, the ttyvN consoles had a TERM setting of cons25. > On FreeBSD 9.n, it appears to be xterm for ttyv0, but it's still cons25 > for ttyv1-ttyv8 (even though they all appear to act like xterms). Not > surprisingly, this leads to less than desirable results when trying to > run vi (or other such programs) on ttyv1 through ttyv8, unless you > remember to setenv TERM xterm. > > Why did we change from cons25 to xterm? How can we get all the ttyvNs > to get the correct TERM setting? -- George Mitchell What is in your /etc/ttys? This is the ttys file on 9-STABLE on amd64: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/9/etc/etc.amd64/ttys?revision=225736&view=markup&pathrev=238244 Regards, Ronald.
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