xterm termcape :ti@:te@:

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 09:52:24AM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 20:23:14 -0400
> Thomas Dickey <dickey at radix.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 08:37:05AM +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
> > > no help from the following:
> > > 
> > > *** termcap~    Fri Mar 18 14:34:01 2011
> > > --- termcap     Sun Apr 24 23:33:52 2011
> > > ***************
> > > *** 3131,3136 ****
> > > --- 3131,3137 ----
> > >   #
> > >   # Customization begins here.
> > >   xterm-xfree86|xterm terminal emulator (XFree86):\
> > > +       :te=\E[?1049l:ti=\E[?1049h:\
> > >         :tc=xterm-new:
> > 
> > At this point, I'd check if less is using that entry
> > (ktrace or truss should be able to show the open's on the termcap database,
> > for instance).
> > 
> > Also, I seem to recall some discussion about less' -X (--no-init)
> > option.  It's possible that someone's patched "less" for FreeBSD
> > to make that -X option more or less permanent.  That would be
> > consistent with omitting ti/te from the termcap.
> > 
> 
> This may not be too helpful, but it works with rxvt and less, i.e. the
> old screen contents are preserved and appear again after leaving less.

Well, that would address the issue with "less" (if it used the same
behavior in either terminal).  rxvt should be setting $TERM to some
"rxvt" name though, since its function-keys differ from xterm's.

(I seem to recall that some packages for it used to set TERM to "xterm",
under the supposition that a poor match was better than none).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
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