Petr Baudis wrote: > > A little off-topic, anyone knows how to turn off that damn alternate > screen thing on the xterm level? (Or any other level which makes _all_ > programs not to use it.)
Change the terminfo entry. The relevant sequence is \E?47h and \E[?47l (save/restore screen) and often it is paired with \E7 and \E8 (save/restore cursor position) and \E[2J (clear screen). [1] Here it was put in the smcup/rmcup capabilities. infocmp >term.src vi term.src # either remove the sequences or completely disable the # capabilities by adding a dot in front of them (.rmcup=...). tic term.src Done. Ciao, ET. [1] On strange terminals the escape sequences may be completely different but these are the common ones. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html