Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:06:58 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: max@love2party.net Cc: ed@80386.nl, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, uqs@spoerlein.net, rwatson@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, des@des.no, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, rafan@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r194628 - head/lib/ncurses/ncurses Message-ID: <20090630.150658.1306326527.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <200906302252.53894.max@love2party.net> References: <20090630.094632.195416436.imp@bsdimp.com> <20090630193712.GA5446@roadrunner.spoerlein.net> <200906302252.53894.max@love2party.net>
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Max Laier <max@love2party.net> writes:
: On Tuesday 30 June 2009 21:37:12 Ulrich Spörlein wrote:
: > On Tue, 30.06.2009 at 09:46:32 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > > In message: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906301631470.28381@fledge.watson.org>
: > >
: > > Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> writes:
: > > : On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > > : > Last time this BBQ came up, I thought it was agreed that there
: > > : > would be a xterm-XXX that didn't do this behavior for those folks
: > > : > that think the current behavior is harmfully wrong...
: > > :
: > > : Whereas I think it's a bug in more(1)/less(1) that it tries to use
: > > : those sequences...
: > >
: > > Agreed. vi too. I'll note that on Mac OS, in the xterm, you don't
: > > see this with either... But I don't know how to undo tic(1)
: > > formatting to get back to the raw xterm entries...
: >
: > For vim(1) you can use something like set t_ti= t_te=
: >
: > Btw, I do like the current behaviour, but if $PAGER can be coerced into
: > not clearing screen after exit, I think more people could be persuaded.
:
: $ alias less='less -X'
:
: -X or --no-init
: Disables sending the termcap initialization and deinitialization
: strings to the terminal. This is sometimes desirable if the
: deinitialization string does something unnecessary, like clear-
: ing the screen.
:
: It's one of the first things I do when I get a linux shell account
: somewhere.
Looks like "setenv LESS -X" or "export LESS=-X" would do the same
thing, no? And work for "more" too...
Warner
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