explain the new -f, -x and -w switches Reference: /n/sources/patch/applied/vtman Date: Mon Dec 5 01:31:32 CET 2005 --- /sys/man/1/vt Mon Dec 5 01:24:31 2005 +++ /sys/man/1/vt Mon Dec 5 01:31:56 2005 @@ -4,7 +4,11 @@ .SH SYNOPSIS .B vt [ -.B -2sa +.B -2sawx +] +[ +.B -f +.I font ] .SH DESCRIPTION .I Vt @@ -12,16 +16,27 @@ .IR rc (1) running within an emulation of a DEC VT-100 terminal. The -.B -2 -and +.BR -2 , .B -a +and +.B -x options configure .I vt -to emulate a VT-220 and Ansi terminal respectively. +to emulate a VT-220, Ansi or XTerm terminal respectively. The .B -s -options forces a saner color scheme, i.e, black text on white +option forces a saner color scheme, i.e, black text on white background. +The +.B -w +option helps window resize events propagate to programs +like +.IR ssh (1) +when running under +.I vt . +The +.B -f +option sets the font. .PP The right button has a menu with the following entries to provide the sort of character processing expected by non-Plan 9 systems: @@ -105,5 +120,7 @@ .PP Use care in setting raw and newline modes when connecting to Unix systems via -.IR con . +.IR con (1) +or +.IR ssh (1). It may also be necessary to set the emulator into raw mode.