terminfo

[Ed Schouten]

On 21 February 2014 16:46, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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.

Which, in almost all cases, is problematic due to the fact that the
other side is unaware of the window size of your terminal. If you use
stty(1) to set that up right on the other side, it typically works
pretty good from there on.

-- 
Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl>