Does 9.0 honor TERM settings

[Steve O'Hara-Smith]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 03:13:09 -0500 (CDT)
Lars Eighner <luvbeastie at larseighner.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> 
> Well, then, where is the setting that makes the F7 key send E[18~ instead
> of the standard E[S?

	In the kernel config there's an option TEKEN_CONS25 which will build
the console terminal emulator in CONS25 mode. You'll need a custom kernel
of course.

	I'm curious though - why ? As long as TERM is set correctly
anything that uses curses will handle the keyboard and screen correctly.

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