Odi's astoundingly incomplete notes

Connecting to a Solaris machine, my Cgywin terminal seems unsupported:

top: no termcap entry for a `cygwin' terminal

Note: Solaris' termcap uses terminfo really. No termcap file is ever really read! I worked around it by tar'ing the terminfo db from Cygwin and uploading it to the home directory of that user. First tar and upload Cygwin's terminfo db:

cd /usr/share/terminfo
tar czf terminfo.tgz *
scp terminfo.tgz user@solaris:
rm terminfo.tgz

Then on the remote machine unpack it to the ~/.terminfo directory:

gunzip terminfo.tgz
mkdir .terminfo
cd .terminfo
tar xf ../terminfo.tar
# fix a symlink
rm terminfo
ln -s /usr/share/lib/terminfo
cd ..
rm terminfo.tar
export TERMINFO=${HOME}/.terminfo

Now edit .bash_profile to set the TERMINFO variable on login:

# teach Solaris what my terminal is
export TERMINFO=${HOME}/.terminfo

Now the only thing missing, is a useable vi configuration. On Solaris this is the really old Unix vi, and not vim. So its config file is ~/.exrc. Here we need key mappings for Home, End, PageUp, PageDown, Delete and maybe even the cursor keys. For every key put a mapping in the file like:
map <Escape sequence> <command>

You can enter the escape sequence by pressing Ctrl-V and then the desired key (like PageDown). If the command is also an escape sequence (like Ctrl-F), then also just press Ctrl-V before hitting it. So you should get something like that:

set showmode
" Home
map ^[[1~ 0
" End
map ^[[4~ $
" PgUp
map ^[[5~ ^B
" PgDown
map ^[[6~ ^F
" Del
map ^[[3~ x
" Down
map ^[[B j
" Up
map ^[[A k
" Left
map ^[[D h
" Right
map ^[[C l

posted on 2007-12-18 13:17 UTC in Code | 3 comments | permalink