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Re: Making the keyboard work



> [...] xterm and xterm-color have wildly variant termcap and terminfo
> entries on different systems and this is particuarly ugly with an
> ANSI terminal with more than 24 lines (which is precisely what wscons
> is, by default) because this can lead to the cursor being stuck in
> row 25 and other major annoyances (sigh).

I dunno about the "other major annoyances", but I can't see the cursor
getting stuck on row 25 unless you implement not only X3.41/X3.64 but
also the DEC extensions, or at least CSI r.  (Or, I suppose, something
else functionally equivalent, though that seems unlikely.)

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