Re: clearing the output of less

2007-02-05 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Dan Nicholson wrote: > When 'screen' isn't there, you can control this behavior with the -X > option in less. > Thanks, it's good to know (altough my problem was the opposite:)) -- Jorge -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromsc

Re: clearing the output of less

2007-02-05 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, John Harrigan wrote: > To control this behavior in screen, you can set the altscreen > parameter to on or off in your screenrc file. > Good tip! Thanks. -- Jorge Almeida -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq

Re: clearing the output of less

2007-02-05 Thread John Harrigan
* Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, bojster wrote: > > > Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > > > After exiting less or man in other distributions, the screen appears as > > > before, i. e, I see "$ less foo". It is not so with [my ] LFS: the > > > visible part of the "foo" document

Re: clearing the output of less

2007-02-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 2/5/07, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After exiting less or man in other distributions, the screen appears as > before, i. e, I see "$ less foo". It is not so with [my ] LFS: the > visible part of the "foo" document remains visible in the screen. > What controls this behaviour? Some

Re: clearing the output of less

2007-02-05 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, bojster wrote: > Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > After exiting less or man in other distributions, the screen appears as > > before, i. e, I see "$ less foo". It is not so with [my ] LFS: the > > visible part of the "foo" document remains visible in the screen. > > What controls th

Re: clearing the output of less

2007-02-05 Thread bojster
Jorge Almeida wrote: > After exiting less or man in other distributions, the screen appears as > before, i. e, I see "$ less foo". It is not so with [my ] LFS: the > visible part of the "foo" document remains visible in the screen. > What controls this behaviour? Some environment variable? > > (I

clearing the output of less

2007-02-05 Thread Jorge Almeida
After exiting less or man in other distributions, the screen appears as before, i. e, I see "$ less foo". It is not so with [my ] LFS: the visible part of the "foo" document remains visible in the screen. What controls this behaviour? Some environment variable? (I'm trying this logged in a remote