Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:24:33 -0800 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> To: sheldonh@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/14959: incomplete xterm termcap entry (see also bug gnu/5039) Message-ID: <98938.942949473@monkeys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 18 Nov 1999 02:33:37 -0800. <199911181033.CAA16802@freefall.freebsd.org>
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In message <199911181033.CAA16802@freefall.freebsd.org>, you wrote: >Synopsis: incomplete xterm termcap entry (see also bug gnu/5039) > >State-Changed-From-To: open->closed >State-Changed-By: sheldonh >State-Changed-When: Thu Nov 18 02:33:06 PST 1999 >State-Changed-Why: >> Given what I now know about the behavior of `more', it now seems >> clearer to me that ever that the Right Solution for this unfortnate >> situation is to leave the screen save/restore capability in the >> termcap database and then to merely add command options to programs >> (e.g. vi, more, etc) that would say, in effect ``Don't do that!'' > >To quote back to you your own rantings from earlier on in the same >thread: > >> OK. Then you should go and make the rounds and talk with ALL of the >> maintainers of those programs and tell them all to add options that >> will allow you to _disable_ the screen save/restore capabilities >> which their authors labored to produce. > >Have fun petitioning the maintainers of all the packages whose behaviour >annoys you. :-) I've only found 3 such programs. One of them is `more'. The two others are `show' and `next' from the MH mail handling package, but I'm going to stop using that in the near future anyway. (It doesn't do IMAP.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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