xterm screen restore

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 17:04, Randy Bush wrote:
> when i exit more, vi, ... i like to have the window restored to
> the way it was before i entered more, vi, ...  i used to effect
> this by a hack to the termcap data, but have lost the hack.  what
> am i missing here?

You want the switch to/from alternate screen escapes in the ti= and te=
entries.

Standard:  \E[?47h
XFree86: \E[?1049h (this one clears the target and remembers the cursor
position in each screen; XFree86 4.0 and later only)

Also make sure the titeInhibit resource isn't set to true, as this
causes xterm to ignore the alternate screen (arguably it's misnamed).

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