Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 00:10:38 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: screen not restored on exit of (less|more|vi|.*) Message-ID: <199811020810.AAA08861@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 01 Nov 1998 20:56:30 PST." <m0zaC2Y-0008G3C@rip.psg.com>
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> xserver on CURRENT, two xterms, each running current bash etc. > o one to a bsdi 3.1 system (same on sunos, ...) > o one to the same freebsd host > > say 'less foo' (or vi foo, or ...) > > o quit less on bsdi and the screen is restored. i.e., you see > > foo% more iddd.patch > foo% > > i.e. all the remnants of less's output are gone, and the screen is > restored exactly as it was before the command ran, with a new prompt > right below the one that issued the command, even if it is mid-screen. > > o after running less on freebsd the screen is not restored. i.e. the > remnants of less fill the screen with the new prompt on the bottom > line of the xterm, and the previous prompt and screen obliterated. > > i prefer the former behavior, but do not understand how to cause the freebsd > system to adopt it. [... termcap ...] > but > o replacing freebsd's with bsdi's (noting the te/ti) > o rebuilding termcap.db > o and starting a new xterm > gives me the same result. > > any clues? It is indeed the te/ti escapes. I don't know what you've done, but it was decided by many people that the use of te/ti was basically ugly (and it has some bad associated bugs) so it was disabled. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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