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Date:      Fri, 26 Feb 2021 19:07:22 +0100
From:      "Piotr P. Stefaniak" <pstef@freebsd.org>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
Cc:        rgrimes@freebsd.org, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: 2a50a9de8340 - main - terminfo: add terminfo database
Message-ID:  <20210226180722.GA29488@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20210226175859.GB85424@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <202102261420.11QEKJoX006569@slippy.cwsent.com> <202102261730.11QHUh8n031156@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <20210226175859.GB85424@FreeBSD.org>

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On 2021-02-26 17:58:59, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 09:30:43AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>> ...
>> Oh, I so hate that mis-feature of Linux, please please tell me there is
>> a simple knob to turn this off?  I believe LESS also does this kind
>> of stuff, or atleast "man" on linux does, and that pees me off to no
>> end when I quit the man page and what I wanted is no longer on the screen.
>
>Everyone I know hates it; GNU/Linux folks apparently not pissed by this
>just because they haven't seen a better OS (e.g., FreeBSD).

I prefer one or the other, depending on what I'm doing. Surely this is
easy to improve with some machine learning.



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