cursor keys not working on console

[O. Hartmann]

On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 21:18:15 -0400
Thomas Dickey <dickey at his.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 07:53:04PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
> > The cursor keys on the consoles in freebsd CURRENT (no X11 virtual
> > consoles, the FreeBSD consoles!) do not work for me.
> > 
> > I use tcsh as the main shell.
> > As set by default in /etc/ttys, the console's terminal type is
> > xterm. Switching to 
> > 
> > setenv TERM cons25
> > 
> > solves the problem, but the menus in ports via make config look ugly
> > and more ugly, but they are unusable with the setting "TERM=xterm".
> > 
> > What is wrong here? Why are the cursor keys not working in the
> > console/ports menu as expected when using tcsh/csh as default shell?
> 
> from infocmp (cons25 vs xterm):
> 
> 	kcub1: '\E[D', '\EOD'.
> 	kcud1: '\E[B', '\EOB'.
> 	kcuf1: '\E[C', '\EOC'.
> 	kcuu1: '\E[A', '\EOA'.
> 
> It's probably 
> 
> 	http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#cursor_appmode
> 
> You would probably find
> 	TERM=xterm-noapp
> 
> and improvement.
> 

Hello.

Thanks, this works for me.

I was wondering if others did not have the same problem, since I use
only standard settings for the console (except that I use csh/tcsh
instead of sh).

Regards,
Oliver
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