terminfo

[John-Mark Gurney]

Ian Lepore wrote this message on Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 08:46 -0700:
> On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 13:05 +0100, Ed Schouten wrote:
> > It's a shame I am so short on time nowadays, but I think it would make
> > so much sense to just come up with some kind of document that
> > standardizes the intersection of the features supported by most common
> > terminal emulators and get it rubber stamped by the maintainers of
> > various terminal emulators. If it turns out some kind of terminal
> > emulator does something in a non-standard way, we can just slap this
> > document in the author's face. That would not only benefit FreeBSD,
> > but also most of the other flavours of UNIX.
> > 
> > $TERM should die.
> > 
> 
> All of that seems to assume that every terminal actually being used in
> the world today is either xterm or something that emulates it.  Try
> using vi on a serial console on an embedded ARM board and you'll get a
> quick frustrating lesson in how not-xterm a serial console is.  I've yet
> to find a combo of serial comms program and TERM setting that actually
> works well and lets you edit a file with vi.

Have you used screen?

screen /dev/ttyXXX 9600

It's pretty much the only serial console program I use because I use
screen, and remebering how to use tip/cu w/ a new random USB serial
device is anoying...

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