Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 11:34:27 -0800 From: Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to "fix" more(1) vs termcap/terminfo? Message-ID: <199511291934.LAA05211@block.statsci.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Nov 1995 21:03:46 -0500." <Pine.SUN.3.91.951128205826.25291E-100000@latte.eng.umd.edu>
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Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> wrote:
> Can I ask a question? ti/te codes in termcap are codes intended to allow
> complicated tercap-ized programs (programs that need to put your terminal
> in some nonstandard state to get complete cursor control) a good way to
> reset the terminal
My impression of the evolution of things is that things happened in
roughly this order
1) more doesn't use ti/te caps.
2) less does use ti/te caps for whatever reason. Maybe just because it
gave the screen restoration behavior (that I find generally annoying)
under some termcap entries.
3) FreeBSD more acquires features from less (after all less is more :-)).
At the moment, 'less' (v290?) has an option to ALWAYS pause at EOF. If
using a termcap entry with ti/te caps that cause screen restoration, that
behavior is required. The FreeBSD 'more' has an option to pause at EOF,
but only if more than one screenful has been presented. I think one or
more of these should happen:
1) the 'more' -e option should be modified to ALWAYS pause at EOF (as less
290 does).
2) 'more' should always ignore the ti/te caps.
3) 'more' should have an option to cause it to ignore the ti/te caps.
4) We should ignore the problem and tell people to remove the ti/te caps
from their "custom" termcap if they have this problem.
I think that, if I ever get time to do so, I'll probably do a send-pr with
a patch to accomplish #1 above included.
Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 StatSci, a div of MathSoft, Inc.
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