Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 23:50:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
To: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc: current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: TERM={xterm-r5,xterm-r6} behaving badly with man(1)
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On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> writes: >> Sometime in the last few months, something changed (broke IMHO) when >> using TERM=xterm-r5 or TERM=xterm-r6. I've been setting TERM=xterm-r5 >> when logging in to my BSD boxes remotely from my Solaris boxes, so that >> man(1) works. But after updating my relatively old (May?) -current >> box, xterm-r5 and xterm-r6 no longer do the right thing when using >> man. With TERM set to either one of those, man(1) will clear the >> screen after it is done, leaving no trace of the man page behind. > > This is the *correct* behaviour. The termcap entry is supposed to > reflect the capabilities of the terminal, not your personal preferences. > If you don't like it, you can override it using the TERMCAP environment > variable. Well, something did change recently to get this behavior. And why do we have a termcap xterm entry that doesn't exhibit this behavior? -- DEhelp
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