[systemd-devel] Question about 'vt100-nav' : unknown terminal type

[Bill Nottingham]

Lennart Poettering (lennart at poettering.net) said: 
> > vt100-nav|vt100 without advanced video option,
> >         xmc#1,
> >         blink@, bold@, rev@, rmso=\E[m, rmul@, sgr@, sgr0@, smso=\E[7m,
> >         smul@, use=vt100,
> > 
> > so, no blink, no bold, no reverse video, standout is reverse video
> > (which looks odd, if it doesn't support reverse video), no underline, no
> > attribute modes, but otherwise a vt100.
> 
> Hmm, interesting. If this is the case it might indeed be an option to
> switch to v100 by default.
> 
> Bill, do you remember why vt100-nav has been used on Fedora for this?
> Would you oppose if we switch the default to vt100 everywhere?

We had them set to vt100, but had to switch to -nav (around 2004) because
of some HVC devices on certain hardware which choked on just 'vt100'.

Bill