TERM={xterm-r5,xterm-r6} behaving badly with man(1)

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Daniel Eischen <deischen at freebsd.org> writes:
> On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> > This is the *correct* behaviour.  The termcap entry is supposed to
> > reflect the capabilities of the terminal, not your personal preferences.
> > If you don't like it, you can override it using the TERMCAP environment
> > variable.
> Well, something did change recently to get this behavior.

New libncurses perhaps?  The termcap file itself hasn't changed since
late 2005.

>  And why do we have a termcap xterm entry that doesn't exhibit this
> behavior?

Because somebody modified it to reflect his personal preference:

xterm|xterm-color|X11 terminal emulator:\
        :ti@:te@:tc=xterm-xfree86:

the "ti@:te@:" part disables the save / restore functionality.

See for instance the log messages for src/share/termcap/termcap.src
revisions 1.129 and 1.130.

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