Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 09:46:49 -0500 From: Eric van Gyzen <eric@vangyzen.net> To: gljennjohn@gmail.com, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alternate Screen Message-ID: <b2fb216c-937f-53c4-48c4-ec0913a8f469@vangyzen.net> In-Reply-To: <20210517101935.526899f1@ernst.home> References: <451388d3-934c-c506-d7de-81de44b4a29a@vangyzen.net> <20210516170307.z4bzyi46gjyuiqg3@aniel.nours.eu> <20210517101935.526899f1@ernst.home>
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On 5/17/21 5:19 AM, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > 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. Thanks for the help, everyone. Deleting /usr/share/terminfo fixed the problem. (I don't have the terminfo-db package installed.) Bapt, was this intentionally omitted from ObsoleteFiles.inc, or was that an oversight? Cheers, Eric
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