You must set enviroment variables TERM and TERMINFO, like this: export TERM=linux export TERMINFO=/etc/terminfo And, if you device have no this dir (/etc/terminfo), make it, and copy terminfo database. For “linux”, and “pcansi” terminals you can download database: http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2134052&d=1374459598 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=552287&page=4
I found it’s a combination: One The ZSH developers do not think that ZSH should define the actions of the Home, End, Del, … keys. Debian and Ubuntu fix this by defining the normal actions the average user would expect in the global /etc/zsh/zshrc file. Following the relevant code (it is the same on Debian … Read more
You can switch to the alternate screen using this command: $ tput smcup And back with: $ tput rmcup These commands just output the appropriate escape sequences for your terminal. If it is an XTERM they will be equivalent to the (more known but less elegant or portable): $ echo -e “\e[?1049h” And: $ echo … Read more
On most systems, you can look for files under /usr/share/terminfo. On some versions of Solaris that may be /usr/lib/terminfo instead. Some system will also have a termcap file, which may be in /etc. /usr/share, or occasionally /usr/share/misc; the terminal names in that are in lines matching ^[^\t].*|, and every name between |s is a valid … Read more