On Tuesday 30 June 2009 21:37:12 Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > On Tue, 30.06.2009 at 09:46:32 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > In message: <alpine.bsf.2.00.0906301631470.28...@fledge.watson.org> > > > > Robert Watson <rwat...@freebsd.org> writes: > > : On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > : > Last time this BBQ came up, I thought it was agreed that there > > : > would be a xterm-XXX that didn't do this behavior for those folks > > : > that think the current behavior is harmfully wrong... > > : > > : Whereas I think it's a bug in more(1)/less(1) that it tries to use > > : those sequences... > > > > Agreed. vi too. I'll note that on Mac OS, in the xterm, you don't > > see this with either... But I don't know how to undo tic(1) > > formatting to get back to the raw xterm entries... > > For vim(1) you can use something like set t_ti= t_te= > > Btw, I do like the current behaviour, but if $PAGER can be coerced into > not clearing screen after exit, I think more people could be persuaded.
$ alias less='less -X' -X or --no-init Disables sending the termcap initialization and deinitialization strings to the terminal. This is sometimes desirable if the deinitialization string does something unnecessary, like clear- ing the screen. It's one of the first things I do when I get a linux shell account somewhere. -- /"\ Best regards, | mla...@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mla...@efnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"