[vdr] Re: TERM settings and console plugin.

[Stefan Reinauer <stepan@suse.de>]

Hi,

> i experienced some problems with console plugin and various TERM
> environment variable settings.
> if i use TERM=xterm i'm not able to use vim correctly, arrow keys don't
> respond properly, if i set TERM=linux averything works as expected.
> 
> Is this a plugin-related issue ?

the TERM variable is used to tell the applications how the underlying
terminal works. Basically, you cannot just use another TERM setting and
expect the terminal (be it hard- or software) to cope with it. Of course 
applications using advanced terminal features need a correctly set TERM
environment variable to work properly. Why would you want to set
TERM=xterm in the vdr console anyway?

Stefan
  
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