Editing on the serial console

[bob prohaska]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 06:59:00AM -0800, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2019, 10:53 PM bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote:
> 
> > The serial console is rather indespensible on an RPI, is there a way
> > to configure it to be well-behaved with whatever terminal emulator
> > is readily available?
> >
> 
> No. Termcap must match the terminal emulator. If it doesn't, then there
> will be problems. At best, we could expand termcap with a special entry for
> lxterminal if it can't cope with xterm entry.
>
 
It looks as if lxterminal on a Pi3 considers itself an xterm. That's
to say env on a freshly-opened window reports TERM=xterm.

When an RPi goes to single-user and says it's using dumb
terminal setting, what is it expecting?  

Thanks for reading!

bob prohaska