Re: Delete key no longer works after update to 6.0_BETA2

["David Lord" <netbsd%lordynet.org@localhost>]

On 31 May 2012 at 15:48, Martin Husemann wrote:

> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 03:35:12PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > Actually if I try (inside rxvt) with TERM=vt220 it does misbehave,
> > but it works fine if I use xterm.
> 
> Looking only a bit closer shows:
> 
> # echo $TERM; infocmp | fgrep kdch          
> xterm
>       kcuf1=\EOC, kcuu1=\EOA, kdch1=\E[3~, kend=\EOF, kent=\EOM,
> 
> so xterm works, but:
> 
> # echo $TERM ; infocmp | fgrep kdch
> vt220

My NetBSD-5 systems just return "vt220" but the delete key
works ok.

> 
> ... and no key, no works!
> 
> However, I do not know if a real vt220 has a Delete key at all. I only have a
> vt420, which has one - and so has the terminfo entry.
> 
> So, basically the answer is: edit /etc/ttys and change vt220 to wsvt25
> for your ttyE* devices. Or do the equivalent change to your shell startup
> files.

That does not make any difference, the delete key still
does not work.


David

> 
> I am not sure why the term type has not been fixed on most architectures,
> a few get it right (dreamcast, ews4800, macppc, sparc64).
> 
> Martin