Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:06:08 +0800
From: "Rong-en Fan" <grafan@gmail.com>
To: "=?UTF-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?=" <des@des.no>
Cc: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: TERM={xterm-r5,xterm-r6} behaving badly with man(1)
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On 7/29/07, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> wrote: > Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> writes: > > On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > > This is the *correct* behaviour. The termcap entry is supposed to > > > reflect the capabilities of the terminal, not your personal preferences. > > > If you don't like it, you can override it using the TERMCAP environment > > > variable. > > Well, something did change recently to get this behavior. > > New libncurses perhaps? The termcap file itself hasn't changed since > late 2005. Just a note, ncurses in base is updated to 5.6 in late Jan. > > And why do we have a termcap xterm entry that doesn't exhibit this > > behavior? > > Because somebody modified it to reflect his personal preference: > > xterm|xterm-color|X11 terminal emulator:\ > :ti@:te@:tc=xterm-xfree86: > > the "ti@:te@:" part disables the save / restore functionality. > > See for instance the log messages for src/share/termcap/termcap.src > revisions 1.129 and 1.130. > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >home | help
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