Does 9.0 honor TERM settings

[Steve O'Hara-Smith]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:11:19 -0500 (CDT)
Lars Eighner <luvbeastie at larseighner.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> 
> > 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 find it really interesting that this change which broke just about every
> critical application I run was not mentioned in the release notes or
> UPDATING.

	Bizarre - no well written application should break unless of course
you have TERM set to something that doesn't match what the terminal does.
The whole TERM termcap/terminfo/curses mechanism is designed to support
terminal independent applications.

> > 	I'm curious though - why ? As long as TERM is set correctly
> > anything that uses curses will handle the keyboard and screen correctly.
> 
> If 9.0 had not broken my most important applications, I wouldn't be
> asking.

	Which applications - and are they still broken with the right TERM
settings (TERM=xterm) ?

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