Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:34:13 +0100 From: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net>, FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Final call for testers: TERM=xterm Message-ID: <20091111203413.GJ64905@hoeg.nl> In-Reply-To: <86fx8kolak.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <20091111101207.GF64905@hoeg.nl> <200911112031.43685.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> <86fx8kolak.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] * Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> wrote: > The fact that FreeBSD doesn't do this is a bug. The purpose of > /etc/termcap is to document the actual capabilities of the terminal, and > saving and restoring the screen is one of xterm's capabilities, but > somebody who didn't like it unilaterally decided to force their own > personal preferences on everyone instead of tweaking their own shell > configuration (export LESS=-X). As a side note, right now we don't support switching to alternate screen buffers (just becomes a no-op), but it looks like applications don't break because of this. -- Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> WWW: http://80386.nl/ [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkr7H8UACgkQ52SDGA2eCwWKDACeJgmSJGy/azOm9hfGWNBzBF8c 1pYAn1hqw57BLYB8cxgnlmyF/8LEFguI =MBmy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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