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Date:      Mon, 17 May 2021 12:19:35 +0200
From:      Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com>
To:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Eric van Gyzen <eric@vangyzen.net>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Alternate Screen
Message-ID:  <20210517101935.526899f1@ernst.home>
In-Reply-To: <20210516170307.z4bzyi46gjyuiqg3@aniel.nours.eu>
References:  <451388d3-934c-c506-d7de-81de44b4a29a@vangyzen.net> <20210516170307.z4bzyi46gjyuiqg3@aniel.nours.eu>

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On Sun, 16 May 2021 19:03:07 +0200
Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 09:01:53AM -0500, Eric van Gyzen wrote:
> > There was a recent discussion about a terminal database update and the new
> > Alternate Screen behavior.  I'm curious about the resolution, but I can't
> > find that discussion.  Would someone kindly send a clue-by-four via
> > overnight express?
> > 
> > Ultimately, I'd like to know how to get the old behavior back, with no
> > alternate screen, and thereby reduce my blood pressure.
> > 
> > Alternatively yours,  
> 
> The replies you are receiving are interesting as none of them are right...
> 
> What has been done, it now ncurses from base reads both terminfo and termcap DB.
> It is looking up for terminfo db from localbase as well.
> 
> Base only provides termcap (the old termcap definition, nothing new in there).
> if one want the terminfo database which supports alternate screen definition,
> he/shre can just pkg install terminfo-db.
> 

But in March terminfo was being built and installed.  Maybe he failed to
delete /usr/share/terminfo after the change.  Or was simply not aware that
he had to do that.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn



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