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[Matthew Seaman]

On 02/19/15 08:16, Julian Elischer wrote:
> On 2/18/15 3:41 PM, Xin Li wrote:
>>
>> The _only_ reason that I can think of is that more(1) does not clear
>> screen for certain terminals (done with 'ti' and 'te' sequences),
>> while less(1) when running as less does.
>>
>> The less(1) behavior can be annoying to some people (sometimes even
>> myself when using less to show contents of a file and ^Z to paste
>> them), and unfortunately quite a few of them also happen to be the
>> more vocal ones when it comes to a change.
> 
> I find that behaviour infuriating
> 
> I page down to a place to get some text on the screen to use as  a
> reference, then exit to run a command with that information, and *bam*
> the info I wanted to use has gone away.

Absolutely.  Especially as the behaviour under tmux is to clear screen
unlike when just logged into a regular session.

setenv LESS -X

fixes that...

	Matthew

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