From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Mon May 17 14:47:01 2021 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D179564A261 for ; Mon, 17 May 2021 14:47:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eric@vangyzen.net) Received: from mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (unknown [127.0.1.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FkMR94nx9z3Q3g for ; Mon, 17 May 2021 14:47:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eric@vangyzen.net) Received: by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) id A2B9564A260; Mon, 17 May 2021 14:47:01 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: current@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A282164A630 for ; Mon, 17 May 2021 14:47:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eric@vangyzen.net) Received: from smtp.vangyzen.net (hotblack.vangyzen.net [IPv6:2607:fc50:1000:7400:216:3eff:fe72:314f]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4FkMR93bdgz3Q6J; Mon, 17 May 2021 14:47:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eric@vangyzen.net) Received: from disco.vangyzen.net (unknown [70.97.188.230]) by smtp.vangyzen.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1F91356488; Mon, 17 May 2021 09:46:54 -0500 (CDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=vangyzen.net; s=default; t=1621262814; bh=ehr4PA5U4rqT0hDW3I+447D4T5BTiGiM7fj1E736KP0=; h=Subject:To:Cc:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To; b=2ee2LSTOwok+GtW79cfAWAsuAMXvBGHtlyYi74CXE0/lrM5NjobjroKewqoCE0tt3 EvF7KXKxdnPJN35ewlrf+8tqIlrv9bHGvXeKexE9cEvQkChnW9gfYCHvFSyAh8jQIv OjS/pC1dvVk+mFKW6iTj7tQc2XciC+65Wse6dfo4dJT0LkSlNi2u6D7jO+7Xj2F8QP w83Z7WWU24dCK4JAF9AwukZZU0HMjpHsBtyrfKhCUxlxbRzYDHr1SfaL8MOom6FdpK 2gC6fEda9UIO0ujpOPqV5G4z+oBim2EbFPozWzRUTuv2510+PoPAI79MA4SVyC7mpt J0/v1gZGYWNbA== Subject: Re: Alternate Screen To: gljennjohn@gmail.com, Baptiste Daroussin Cc: current@freebsd.org References: <451388d3-934c-c506-d7de-81de44b4a29a@vangyzen.net> <20210516170307.z4bzyi46gjyuiqg3@aniel.nours.eu> <20210517101935.526899f1@ernst.home> From: Eric van Gyzen Message-ID: Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 09:46:49 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20210517101935.526899f1@ernst.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4FkMR93bdgz3Q6J X-Spamd-Bar: ---- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 14:47:01 -0000 On 5/17/21 5:19 AM, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > On Sun, 16 May 2021 19:03:07 +0200 > Baptiste Daroussin 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