Re: OpenBSD console

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Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 10:58:01 -0400

Slava Pogodin <justmailplz@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Help me, plz! I don't understand the answers I already founded in
> google and google.groups.com search engines. My trouble: don't work
> keys Del, Home, End on my standard 104-keys PC keyboard. I read FAQ,
> wsconsctl(8) and kbd(8) manuals, read /etc/termcap,
> /usr/include/dev/wscons/wsconsio.h but... Help me with solution, plz.

The OpenBSD console simulate a correct standard EPC keyboard but the
TERM name selected for the consoles is "vt220". Which doesn't match at
all the wscons keyboard in its terminfo entry.

For exemple:

termcapname wscons vt220
-----------------------------
key_home \E[7~ \E[1~
key_end \E[8~ \E[4~

key_f1 \E[11~ \EOP
...
key_f4 \E[14~ \EOS
key_f5 \E[15~ \E[17~
...

This means that no curse/termcap application will ever be able to use
properly the HOME, END and all the functions keys on a OpenBSD console
using wscons own keyboard mapping (sparc use something else).

DEL,INS,PGDN,PGUP,UP,LEFT,RIGHT,DOWN should work.

I don't have a solution for this problem. Personnaly, I just don't use
the console often enought to miss them. I go into Xterms pretty fast.

I do had a questions about it. Like on which wscons supported arch you
can use a true ANSI keyboard? For who wscons keep PF1...PF4 and
SELECT,FIND mappings? And from where terminfo gets it's keyboard
capabilities?

I coudn't test if it was better in the pre-wscons era.

>
> PS I can't just "pkg_add bash", and put .inputrc in my $HOME. I need
> this keys in ksh, sh or csh.

-- 
Hugo Villeneuve <hugo@EINTR.net>

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