Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 08:03:33 -0800 (PST) From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> To: "José Mª Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: screen not restored on exit of (less|more|vi|.*) Message-ID: <m0zaMS5-0008G3C@rip.psg.com> References: <m0zaC2Y-0008G3C@rip.psg.com> <363DC146.67C421D8@we.lc.ehu.es>
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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.
>
> You should substitute the contents of the file
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/etc/xterm.termcap for the xterm entries in
> /usr/share/misc/termcap. Once done, run "cap_mkdb" to rebuild
> the termcap.db database. This works for me. NOTE: The xterm.termcap
> file distributed with XFree86 3.3.2 has a little bug: search for
> the string "39m;49m" and change it to "39;49m".
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!
> However, there is a nasty secondary effect with "more": when you reach
> the end of a file, "more" terminates, and the contents of the
> last screen is lost. This effect can be avoided using the "-e"
> option or, still better, defining the environment variable "MORE=-e".
yes yes. i actually use less with
LESS=-aCeiM -P %i/%m %f %lt/%L %pb\%
THANK YOU!
randy
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