On 2001.09.06, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Thomas Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> or better yet, it's a popup entry in XFree86 xterm.
I don't use XFree86. I think that its xterm was the same as the one on
your web site, though, which I do use (on Solaris).
I see the "Show Alternate Screen" item, but that seems just to toggle
whether I currently see the alternate screen. My problem is that with
TERM=xterm, applications will use the alternate screen, then flip back
when they suspend or terminate. I don't like that - I want applications
and shell in the standard screen, with no automatic toggling of the
alternate screen. Is there a way to force that without editing the
terminfo or changing $TERM?
> I set my $TERM manually for one of these reasons:
>
> a) the actual $TERM isn't propagated to the shell from where I'm
> logged in.
Isn't that (arguably) a flaw in your communications application or
protocol? I thought that all the standard daemons supported this --
well, as of about 1991, anyway. I don't recall exactly when it showed up
in telnetd.
> b) to work around broken applications/libraries that can't handle
> the terminfo.
>
> c) testing...
Which make sense, of course, but are more of a one-off event than
something to keep in your .profile.
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