From: ben <ben@cda61777-01e9-0310-a592-d414129be87e>
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 17:36:52 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Mention relationship between terminal types, keyboard sequences, and
X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/u/mdw/putty/commitdiff_plain/e81024f93e0944de344c6b77868a873854e44892

Mention relationship between terminal types, keyboard sequences, and
termcap/terminfo.  Suggested by Joachim Durchholz.


git-svn-id: svn://svn.tartarus.org/sgt/putty@6285 cda61777-01e9-0310-a592-d414129be87e
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diff --git a/doc/config.but b/doc/config.but
index 2647189c..6832229d 100644
--- a/doc/config.but
+++ b/doc/config.but
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ other problems.
 
 Note that this is \e{not} the feature of PuTTY which the server will
 typically use to determine your terminal type. That feature is the
-\q{Terminal-type string} in the Connection panel; see
+\q{\ii{Terminal-type} string} in the Connection panel; see
 \k{config-termtype} for details.
 
 You can include control characters in the answerback string using
@@ -502,7 +502,13 @@ state.
 \H{config-keyboard} The Keyboard panel
 
 The Keyboard configuration panel allows you to control the behaviour
-of the \i{keyboard} in PuTTY.
+of the \i{keyboard} in PuTTY.  The correct state for many of these
+settings depends on what the server to which PuTTY is connecting
+expects.  With a \i{Unix} server, this is likely to depend on the
+\i\c{termcap} or \i\c{terminfo} entry it uses, which in turn is likely to
+be controlled by the \q{\ii{Terminal-type} string} setting in the Connection
+panel; see \k{config-termtype} for details.  If none of the settings here
+seems to help, you may find \k{faq-keyboard} to be useful.
 
 \S{config-backspace} Changing the action of the \ii{Backspace key}
 
@@ -1681,7 +1687,11 @@ connected to from lots of different types of terminal. In order to
 send the right \i{control sequence}s to each one, the server will need
 to know what type of terminal it is dealing with. Therefore, each of
 the SSH, Telnet and Rlogin protocols allow a text string to be sent
-down the connection describing the terminal.
+down the connection describing the terminal.  On a \i{Unix} server,
+this selects an entry from the \i\c{termcap} or \i\c{terminfo} database
+that tells applications what \i{control sequences} to send to the
+terminal, and what character sequences to expect the \i{keyboard}
+to generate.
 
 PuTTY attempts to emulate the Unix \i\c{xterm} program, and by default
 it reflects this by sending \c{xterm} as a terminal-type string. If
diff --git a/doc/faq.but b/doc/faq.but
index 18d42909..abb44901 100644
--- a/doc/faq.but
+++ b/doc/faq.but
@@ -779,8 +779,8 @@ your terminal runs the risk of sending the same control sequence by
 accident, and cause unexpected changes in the window title. Don't do
 it.
 
-\S{faq-password-fails}{Question} My keyboard stops working once
-PuTTY displays the password prompt.
+\S{faq-password-fails}{Question} My \i{keyboard} stops working once
+PuTTY displays the \i{password prompt}.
 
 No, it doesn't. PuTTY just doesn't display the password you type, so
 that someone looking at your screen can't see what it is.
@@ -790,8 +790,8 @@ as a row of asterisks either. This is so that someone looking at
 your screen can't even tell how \e{long} your password is, which
 might be valuable information.
 
-\S{faq-keyboard}{Question} One or more function keys don't do what I
-expected in a server-side application.
+\S{faq-keyboard}{Question} One or more \I{keyboard}\i{function keys}
+don't do what I expected in a server-side application.
 
 If you've already tried all the relevant options in the PuTTY
 Keyboard panel, you may need to mail the PuTTY maintainers and ask.
@@ -812,8 +812,8 @@ application is expecting.
 The simplest way to investigate this is to find some other terminal
 environment, in which that function key \e{does} work; and then
 investigate what sequence the function key is sending in that
-situation. One reasonably easy way to do this on a Unix system is to
-type the command \c{cat}, and then press the function key. This is
+situation. One reasonably easy way to do this on a \i{Unix} system is to
+type the command \i\c{cat}, and then press the function key. This is
 likely to produce output of the form \c{^[[11~}. You can also do
 this in PuTTY, to find out what sequence the function key is
 producing in that. Then you can mail the PuTTY maintainers and tell