[ On Saturday, October 16, 2004 at 22:33:11 (+0100), Stefan Krüger wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: kern/27256: terminal issues?  (insert, home, end, page up, page down, and delete)
>
> wsvt25? what's that? ;-) I've never used it, I'm happy w/ vt220

You all might be happier with the correct TERM setting, as per
wscons(4):

             In most applications, wscons in vt100 mode will work sufficiently
             as a VT220 emulator.  The wsvt25 or wsvt25m terminal type should
             be used with applications using NetBSD curses(3).

The /etc/ttys _should_ be using "wsvt25" on all platforms where
wscons(4) is supported, so indeed that's a bug, but it's probably a bug
in the source for /etc/ttys, not in the installer (i.e. not in sysinst).


> up-down-right-left arrow keys also have usually nothing todo w/ your 
> term, it depends on your shell (i.e. chances are high that they'll work 
> w/ bash or tcsh, they'll most likely not work w/ plain csh or ksh/sh)

IIRC the original PR was about vi and vim, not the shell command-line
editor (e.g. given the descriptions of problems with page-{up,down}),
but perhaps that's another part of the confusion here!  ;-)


> some solutions for you:
> 
> 1. change vt100 to vt220 in /etc/ttys

That's bad advice.  Two wrongs don't make a right.

The only really correct terminal type for wscons(4) screens is "wsvt25".

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