Re: terminfo, function keys and linux console

[Dave Wood]

On (22:38 08/01/09), Mike Gran <address@hidden> put forth the proposition:
> > That's the problem - vim, mutt and other programs don't recognise the F1 -
> > F5 keys. When I press F1 in vim it thinks I'm pressing 'A' because the 
> > sequence is [[A where in most consoles in X for example it's [11~. 
> >
> > So far the only way I've found to fix this is make a keymap that binds
> > those function keys to keys that I don't use often and then set up mappings
> > in vim to use those keys rather than F1-5.
>
> It could be that your TERM environment variable is not getting set correctly to 
> the console that you are using.
>
> Does "env | grep TERM" give you the expected answer?
>
> Does running vim as "TERM=linux vim" solve the problem?

Yes that works! On further investigation it would seem to be because I had
'export TERM=linux' in my .bashrc. Removing that solves it completely, even
though TERM is still linux.

Thanks, you don't know know how relieved I am to fix that :)

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