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

Daniel Eischen deischen at freebsd.org
Sun Jul 29 13:10:28 UTC 2007


On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 05:26:52PM +0800, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>> Because somebody modified it to reflect his personal preference:
>>
>> xterm|xterm-color|X11 terminal emulator:\
>>         :ti@:te@:tc=3Dxterm-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.
>
> ...noting that was almost 5 years ago, the current issue is what changed
> in the past 6 months.  The information that I can see at the moment
> leans toward the notion that someone's been using the terminfo data
> for some time, and is unpleasantly surprised at the result when using
> the termcap.

I have no idea what you are talking about (terminfo vs termcap).
I am not using anything special, everything is just built from
ports and stock -current.

-- 
DE


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