svn commit: r194628 - head/lib/ncurses/ncurses

[Max Laier]

On Tuesday 30 June 2009 21:37:12 Ulrich Spörlein wrote:
> On Tue, 30.06.2009 at 09:46:32 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> > In message: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906301631470.28381 at fledge.watson.org>
> >
> >             Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > : On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> > : > Last time this BBQ came up, I thought it was agreed that there
> > : > would be a xterm-XXX that didn't do this behavior for those folks
> > : > that think the current behavior is harmfully wrong...
> > :
> > : Whereas I think it's a bug in more(1)/less(1) that it tries to use
> > : those sequences...
> >
> > Agreed.  vi too.  I'll note that on Mac OS, in the xterm, you don't
> > see this with either...  But I don't know how to undo tic(1)
> > formatting to get back to the raw xterm entries...
>
> For vim(1) you can use something like set t_ti= t_te=
>
> Btw, I do like the current behaviour, but if $PAGER can be coerced into
> not clearing screen after exit, I think more people could be persuaded.

$ alias less='less -X'

   -X or --no-init
          Disables sending the termcap initialization and deinitialization
          strings to the terminal.  This is  sometimes  desirable  if  the
          deinitialization  string does something unnecessary, like clear-
          ing the screen.

It's one of the first things I do when I get a linux shell account 
somewhere.

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