Does 9.0 honor TERM settings

Steve O'Hara-Smith steve at sohara.org
Fri Aug 24 07:05:47 UTC 2012


On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 01:18:23 -0500 (CDT)
Lars Eighner <luvbeastie at larseighner.com> wrote:

> 
> Does 9.0 honor TERM settings?
> 
> It appears to me it does not.  Although I set TERM=cons25l1 in .profile
> (running bash) and have verified that it is set to that value with SET,
> it appears to me that the function keys are mapped to weird xterm-like
> strings instead of their ANSI values (example: F7 = E[18~ not E[S).

	The TERM environment variable is supposed to describe the terminal
not control it.

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