So, it's a bit quiet now that the simple editor thread as died down. So lets stir things up some more :) Having an easy to use editor in base would be nice, but wouldn't having a fully working keyboard be better? Infact, editing files isn't that great when your home/end keys don't work. What's more, I find it embarassing that in this day and age it doesn't work. Can you really take an OS seriously when something as basic as the keyboard doesn't work as it should? Luckily this is easily fixable. We should stop trying to make wscons pretend it's a vt220 by changing /etc/ttys. The correct entry is of course wsvt25. Changing it also has the added benefit of adding colour to the console. After much discussion on ICB about it, the only argument against this seems to be that wsvt25 isn't known on other systems, so remote shells will break. The only modern system I can find that doesn't support wsvt25 as a TERM right now is FreeBSD, but I'm sure if we asked them nicely they could add it to their termcap. For other systems, the user can always type "TERM=vt220 ssh foo.com" if the remote admin and/or upstream won't add wsvt25. So which is more important - a working keyboard with a colour screen that works with recent remote systems or a broken keyboard with a mono screen that sort of works with systems that support vt220 but not wsvt25? Discuss. Thanks Roy
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