On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 06:07:20PM -0500, David Champion wrote:
> 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?
There's also "Enable Alternate Screen Switching". Just glancing at the
changelog, it appears I added that around patch #90.
> > 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.
sure - but in the cases where it breaks, it's usually on someone else's network
(I can't fix those ;-)
>
> > 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.
>
> --
> -D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] NSIT University of Chicago
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