git: 2a50a9de8340 - main - terminfo: add terminfo database

Piotr P. Stefaniak pstef at freebsd.org
Fri Feb 26 18:07:22 UTC 2021


On 2021-02-26 17:58:59, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 09:30:43AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>> ...
>> Oh, I so hate that mis-feature of Linux, please please tell me there is
>> a simple knob to turn this off?  I believe LESS also does this kind
>> of stuff, or atleast "man" on linux does, and that pees me off to no
>> end when I quit the man page and what I wanted is no longer on the screen.
>
>Everyone I know hates it; GNU/Linux folks apparently not pissed by this
>just because they haven't seen a better OS (e.g., FreeBSD).

I prefer one or the other, depending on what I'm doing. Surely this is
easy to improve with some machine learning.


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