svn commit: r200369 - in head: etc share/termcap

Valentin Nechayev netch at netch.kiev.ua
Sun Dec 13 00:49:10 PST 2009


 Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 00:24:08, wollman wrote about "Re: svn commit: r200369 - in head: etc share/termcap": 

> > It's great, thank!!
> > I believe that our xterm entry was modified not to clear screen when
> > applications such as less(1) are terminated.  Are there any chance to
> > back to the behavior?
> 
> <aol/>
> 
> I don't understand why people put up with the unspeakably obnoxious
> "alternate screen" behavior.  Please don't tell me someone actually
> thinks it's *useful*.

I also vote for old variant. If anybody wants to keep previous screen
contents, there are many ways for this (another xterm, screen, less,
etc.), and all they are more predictable and controllable than
alternate screen which isn't loggable and isn't provided by many terminal
implementations.


-netch-


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