Final call for testers: TERM=xterm

Kurt Jaeger lists at c0mplx.org
Wed Nov 11 20:22:11 UTC 2009


Hi!

> I'm not in a position to test this at the moment, but does this mean our 
> console will now also "fold" paging/editor applications?
> I hate this feature with a passion on linux and I've unable to find out
> how to 
> disable it, especially since the few linux machines I manage have no termcap 
> or terminfo database on the places they say they should be.
> What I mean with folding is:
> root at www:~# man less
> Reformatting less(1), please wait...
> root at www:~# 

For less, have a look at the "-X" flag:

Disables sending the termcap initialization and deinitialization
strings to the terminal. 

In termcap/terminfo, you probably have to look for
the 'ti' and 'te' capabilities.

Basically, find the xterm termcap/terminfo source file, edit it
to change/delete ti/te and re-compile the source using tic.

Yes, someone should write a howto about this 8-}

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