Alternate Screen

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 09:46:49AM -0500, Eric van Gyzen wrote:
> On 5/17/21 5:19 AM, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> > On Sun, 16 May 2021 19:03:07 +0200
> > Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 09:01:53AM -0500, Eric van Gyzen wrote:
> > > > There was a recent discussion about a terminal database update and the new
> > > > Alternate Screen behavior.  I'm curious about the resolution, but I can't
> > > > find that discussion.  Would someone kindly send a clue-by-four via
> > > > overnight express?
> > > > 
> > > > Ultimately, I'd like to know how to get the old behavior back, with no
> > > > alternate screen, and thereby reduce my blood pressure.
> > > > 
> > > > Alternatively yours,
> > > 
> > > The replies you are receiving are interesting as none of them are right...
> > > 
> > > What has been done, it now ncurses from base reads both terminfo and termcap DB.
> > > It is looking up for terminfo db from localbase as well.
> > > 
> > > Base only provides termcap (the old termcap definition, nothing new in there).
> > > if one want the terminfo database which supports alternate screen definition,
> > > he/shre can just pkg install terminfo-db.
> > > 
> > 
> > But in March terminfo was being built and installed.  Maybe he failed to
> > delete /usr/share/terminfo after the change.  Or was simply not aware that
> > he had to do that.
> 
> Thanks for the help, everyone.  Deleting /usr/share/terminfo fixed the
> problem.  (I don't have the terminfo-db package installed.)
> 
> Bapt, was this intentionally omitted from ObsoleteFiles.inc, or was that an
> oversight?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Eric

It is in ObsoleteFiles.inc

# 20210318: remove the terminfo database

Bapt