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

[Jessica Clarke]

On 26 Feb 2021, at 17:58, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org> 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 use both, I don't hate it. The only time I dislike it is when my SSH
connection drops whilst the alternate buffer is still in use, as that
can get confusing, but most of the time I'm grateful that my scroll
back isn't a mess of stuff I've since closed. Please don't spread
ill-founded absolutisms; that or you need to be aware of people outside
your circle of like-minded individuals.

Jess