Re: portconfig vs xterm

From: Craig Leres <leres_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2024 21:25:50 UTC
On 3/1/24 11:53, Alfonso S. Siciliano wrote:
> On 2/4/24 04:06, Craig Leres wrote:
>> I was trying to give 13.3-BETA1 a legit tryout and ended up spending 
>> hours fighting with portconfig. In my experience it does not play well 
>> with xterm. Function and arrow keys are no-ops and unlike dialog4ports 
>> it does not allow navigation with ^P/^N. Given that that my TERM is 
>> set to xterm when I login to the *console* of my newly installed 13.3 
>> system (as when I ssh in from my FreeBSD desktop) how can my user 
>> experience be so terrible?
>>
> 
> Thank you for your report and sorry for the late reply.
> 
> I added ^P/^N to the TODO list. They will be available in the next
> version. I have just created a wiki page for feature requests and
> problems reports:
> 
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/portconfig
> 
> Please, you could add an entry in the Problems table to describe
> the problem and the steps to reproduce.
> Also you could open a PR (and/or write an email to asiciliano@)
> to investigate and to continue the discussion.

I logged into the wiki (as Craig Leres) but I do not see any options for 
making changes. I don't think I've ever made changes to the FreeBSD wiki 
before...

		Craig