On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Warren Block <wblock_at_wonkity.com> wrote: > On Thu, 19 Feb 2015, Julian Elischer wrote: > > On 2/18/15 3:41 PM, Xin Li wrote: >> >>> >>> The _only_ reason that I can think of is that more(1) does not clear >>> screen for certain terminals (done with 'ti' and 'te' sequences), >>> while less(1) when running as less does. >>> >>> The less(1) behavior can be annoying to some people (sometimes even >>> myself when using less to show contents of a file and ^Z to paste >>> them), and unfortunately quite a few of them also happen to be the >>> more vocal ones when it comes to a change. >>> >> >> I find that behaviour infuriating >> >> I page down to a place to get some text on the screen to use as a >> reference, then exit to run a command with that information, and *bam* the >> info I wanted to use has gone away. >> > > It doesn't do that on csh. Or maybe I figured out how to prevent it long > ago and forgot, but all I use is this: > > setenv PAGER "less -RS" > You probably did what I used to do. Modify the termcaps/terminfo to eliminate this behavior. See Exorcising the Evil Alternate Screen <http://shallowsky.com/linux/noaltscreen.html>. In the past, FreeBSD disabled this by default. It was changed several years ago, but you can change it back as per the aboved referenced article. -- Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkoberman_at_gmail.comReceived on Fri Feb 20 2015 - 02:45:49 UTC
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