Subject: Re: arrow keys revisited
To: Port mac68k <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Matthew Theobalds <mtheobalds@mac.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/21/2001 22:57:14
On Wednesday, March 21, 2001, at 10:51 pm, Stefan Jeglinski wrote:
> This exact question appears to have only been in the mac68k archives,
> but I never saw a solution, or maybe I saw the answer but the files
> that had to be modified were never explicitly named and I'm not
> familiar enough with NetBSD to know those by default.
>
> My arrow keys don't work, instead sending escape sequences like ^[[A
> for the up-arrow. Rather, the arrow keys -are- working as this appears
> to be the correct escape sequence, but they may not be being
> interpreted correctly by the shell. The default shell appears to be
> csh. Where should I put or check a TERM or tty setting to try to get
> this to work? It happens in both console mode and also in any remote
> terminal window I bring up.
>
> Another one for the mac68k FAQ that I'll contribute when I get it
> resolved...
Your best bet would be to install Bash. They work beautifully there. You
also get a pretty darned popular and good shell to boot.
All the best.
Matthew