From: Mark Fowler Date: 11:46 on 24 Mar 2004 Subject: terminals again. Somehow I've managed to configure my terminal so that when I ssh to another box and user vi or emacs (but, not when I use bash) the cursor keys don't work. How is this even possible?
From: Jonathan Katz Date: 13:28 on 24 Mar 2004 Subject: Re: terminals again. Mark Pondered: > Somehow I've managed to configure my terminal so that when I ssh to > another box and user vi or emacs (but, not when I use bash) the > cursor keys don't work. > > How is this even possible? /usr/local/bin/bash most likely has some kind of fudge in the code that lets it read multiple types of encoding to result with arrow keys. $TERM may be the culprit or the terminal software you're using. Within emacs does ctl+a/ctl+n/ctl+e work for cursor movement? -Jon -- Jonathan Katz, J. Random Guy.
From: Mark Fowler Date: 17:49 on 24 Mar 2004 Subject: Re: terminals again. On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Mark Fowler wrote: > How is this even possible? Apparently I'd toggled the value of "Strict VT-100 keypad behaviour". Of course, that's so fricking obvious. I know that this setting has to be in for historical reasons. That doesn't make me hate it any less. Mark.
From: Matt McLeod Date: 01:09 on 25 Mar 2004 Subject: Re: terminals again. Mark Fowler wrote: > Apparently I'd toggled the value of "Strict VT-100 keypad behaviour". > > Of course, that's so fricking obvious. I know that this setting has to > be in for historical reasons. That doesn't make me hate it any less. Not just historical. There's an app I use just about every day which won't work at all if you don't have that set, and it's not an old unsupported FPOS. Me, I hate dealing with the setup stuff for the Compaq SmartArray units. The only terminal emulators I've found that'll do it right on the Mac are things you run in Virtual PC, or the Linux console. And then you discover that the fuckheads responsible didn't include all the configuration options in it anyway, so you have to run their stupidly insecure Insight Manager plus plugins to finish the job off, *and* it works with a rather limited range of browsers, none of them on the Mac.
From: peter (Peter da Silva) Date: 04:20 on 25 Mar 2004 Subject: Re: terminals again. > Me, I hate dealing with the setup stuff for the Compaq SmartArray > units. The only terminal emulators I've found that'll do it right > on the Mac are things you run in Virtual PC, or the Linux console. If it won't work right on GLterm, let the author know. He's even more obsessive about terminal emulation than I am and he started writing terminal programs a couple years before I did.
From: Mark Fowler Date: 11:10 on 25 Mar 2004 Subject: Re: terminals again. On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Peter da Silva wrote: > If it won't work right on GLterm, let the author know. He's even more > obsessive about terminal emulation than I am and he started writing > terminal programs a couple years before I did. I didn't use GLterm because command-~ didn't work. I didn't complain to the author becuase it says quite clearly on the web page "Support. Requests for support from non-registered users will have a near-zero priority." I didn't register because it didn't do what I want - i.e. command-~ didn't work. If that's not hateful I don't know what is.
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