On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 16:11, Michael Wardle wrote: > On Wednesday, March 12, 2003 01:52, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Specifically, this regards "window blanking" in "full screen" curses > > apps (like man(1), less(1) & vi(1), but not more(1)). > > > > When I was running GNOME 1.4 from sarge, the "screen" would not blank > > when I exited these type of apps; i.e., the last remaining bit of the > > app would still be on the "screen". This was a good and helpful thing. > > You can make less behave the way you want by running it with -X or setting > $LESS to an option string including "X". When less is installed, it is used > as the manual pager, so this change should get man pages working the way you > want for free.
Worked like a champ; thanks. > I thought vi did actually clear the screen by default, and I'm not aware of a > way to change this. If my recollection is incorrect, you might like to > ensure that you're running nvi as vi. You could also run vim and see if > there's an option to not clear or initialize the screen. Vim is my vi, and I looked in the man page, but didn't see any such option, but shall keep looking. -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | Spit in one hand, and wish for peace in the other. | | Guess which is more effective... | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
