Re: misc/10127 (port i386 /etc/ttys says vt220 instead of wsvt25)

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 06:30:05PM +0000, Greg A. Woods; Planix, Inc. wrote:
>  > Synopsis: port i386 /etc/ttys says vt220 instead of wsvt25
>  >
>  > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
>  > State-Changed-By: ad%NetBSD.org@localhost
>  > State-Changed-When: Tue, 13 May 2008 13:31:37 +0000
>  > State-Changed-Why:
>  > Changing it to wsvt25 is a bad idea because that's a very local  
>  > termcap entry.
>  > vt220 is well known. vt100 would be even better, but...
>  
>  That makes little or no sense whatsoever.
>  
>  If someone is using the console with any curses application then they  
>  need the proper and best possible termcap definition for it.
>  
>  If that same someone then remotely connects to another system from  
>  their console session then they can at that time either choose to use  
>  the best possible matching termcap definition provided on the remote  
>  system for the curses applications run on that remote system, or  
>  better yet they can export $TERMCAP from their console session to the  
>  remote system.
>  
>  Handicapping _all_ console users by default just to support those few  
>  who are not doing things correctly when they connect to a remote  
>  system from their console session is just not a good idea.

I don't know much peoples who would think about changing $TERM
when connecting to a non-NetBSD box from a NetBSD console. I think using
vt220 by default is fine (and AFAIK curses applications are perfectly happy
with vt220 on a NetBSD console ...)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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