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From: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
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Subject: Re: misc/14959: incomplete xterm termcap entry (see also bug gnu/5039) 
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The problem is a little more subtle.  The meaning of "ti" and "to" termcap
entries make no mention of "saving the screen contents".  The description of ti
in termcap(5) is "string to start programs using cursor_address".  There is no
way in termcap to express the operation "save/restore the screen contents", and
no way to write a program (vi, more, whatever) to either use or not use this
feature.  Extending termcap (yet again!) with another set of tags for this
feature is probably not feasible.  So ugly hacks are the only option.

>   (In the meantime, I've kludged together something local here...
>  a wrapper shell script for `more' that *removes* the te=/ti= stuff from the
>  TERMCAP environment variable before starting `more'... but that's kind-of
>  an ugly hack.)

A slightly less ugly hack is to have a second termcap entry like this:
	xterm-cl|xterm with ti=clear/restore screen:\
		:ti=<whatever>:to=<whatever>:tc=xterm:
and then something like (for Bash/ksh users)
	vi () { TERM=xterm-cl vi "$@"; }

WRT the original PR, perhaps a solution is to add a suitable "xterm-cl" entry
to the standard termcap file?




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