At 9:44 am 5/3/96, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>> (Replying to myself again... tut tut tut)
>>
>> Everything works fine when I telnet in from another machine, I have just
>> discovered.  Conclusion:  Our terminal emulation is broken.  I use vt220.
>> What iis the ite 'driver' supposed to be emulating?
>
>I think it is now emulating a vt100. The console has always been
>emulating a vt100, but at some point, dt got switched from vt220
>to vt100 (IMHO a GOOD THING :-) . So try vt100 & see what it does.
>
>Take care,
>
>Bill

OK.

I have changed /etc/ttys so that console & ttye0 are considered to be
vt100s.  This seems to have solved all display glitches (although, it being
nearly 1 in the morning, I haven't stress tested it!). This should probably
be changed in our distribution?

Certainly I can have complex left & right hand side prompts in zsh, and
step back through history lines, some of which are multi-line.  So that's
pretty good.

Unfortunately, zsh still cannot interprete arrow keys.  Is this a termcap
issue (i.e. does termcap handle input as well?).  I can of course manually
bindkey them, but I'd rather get to the root of the problem.  I am assuming
that ncurses wouldn't help, since that's output stuff only.  So I am forced
to think that it is a bug in the particular (admittedly beta) version of
zsh I am using.  Especially because tcsh can recognise my arrow keys fine.

I'll investigate it more, and then post to one of the zsh lists about it.

Jules


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