From: Crystal Kolipe <kolipe.c@exoticsilicon.com>
Subject: Re: Console regression in 7.5 due to missing ECMA-48 REP capability
To: Miod Vallat <miod@online.fr>
Cc: tech@openbsd.org
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2024 20:47:18 +0000

On Tue, Nov 05, 2024 at 10:31:34AM +0000, Miod Vallat wrote:
> > A regression was introduced during the 7.5 development cycle by the curses
> > updates.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Or are people just not aware that it's now supposed to work?
> 
> TERM=xterm has never been documented as a working setting for the text
> console in OpenBSD. The only safe values are vt200 and the various
> wsvtXX (where XX corresponds to the number of lines).
> 
> However, changes which improve xterm-compliance are generally considered
> a good thing.

If anyone has a common use-case that fails or mis-behaves with TERM=xterm,
I'd be interested in such bug reports.

> I have implemented this ioctl based on your diff. Thanks for reporting
> the need for this ioctl after the curses update, and sorry for taking
> too long to act on this.

Great, thanks!