better way than hacking termcap to be ca_mode free

Stuart Barkley stuartb at 4gh.net
Tue Aug 17 00:51:15 UTC 2010


On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 at 04:50 -0000, Randy Bush wrote:

> is there a better way to achieve this?

I'm not sure what ca_mode is, but I have the following in my
.Xresources file:

XTerm*tiXtraScroll:     true
XTerm*titeInhibit:      true

These get rid of the silly alternate screen in vi, etc.  There are
also similar options directly to xterm.

Stuart Barkley
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