Re: Switching default TERM to wsvt25 on console

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20120601144533.GE18265%mail.duskware.de@localhost>,
Martin Husemann  <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
>Some recent discussion about the "Del" key not being mapped by vi
>correctly on netbsd-6 using ttyE* made me check again, and after some
>off list  discussion I would now like to propose to switch all
>wscons-using ports to set "wsvt25" on all their ttyE* lines in
>/etc/ttys by default.
>
>Most of them currently use vt220, which just leaves out a few items.
>Dreamcast, ews4800mips, macppc, sparc64 already use wsvt25.
>
>Last this came up, vt220 was considered more portable, as you could ssh
>to some non NetBSD system and it would not know about wsvt25. However,
>nowadays this is not true for most other systems, and for the few
>legacy ones where it still is, there are easy workarounds (a few lines
>in .login/.shrc).
>
>Objections?
>
>
>Martin
>Side note: the wsvt25 terminfo entry needs fixing for the missing kdch1
>entry. Julian is handling that.

None, makes sense.

christos