Daniel Eischen <deischen_at_freebsd.org> writes: > On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > This is the *correct* behaviour. The termcap entry is supposed to > > reflect the capabilities of the terminal, not your personal preferences. > > If you don't like it, you can override it using the TERMCAP environment > > variable. > Well, something did change recently to get this behavior. New libncurses perhaps? The termcap file itself hasn't changed since late 2005. > And why do we have a termcap xterm entry that doesn't exhibit this > behavior? Because somebody modified it to reflect his personal preference: xterm|xterm-color|X11 terminal emulator:\ :ti_at_:te_at_:tc=xterm-xfree86: the "ti_at_:te_at_:" part disables the save / restore functionality. See for instance the log messages for src/share/termcap/termcap.src revisions 1.129 and 1.130. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des_at_des.noReceived on Sun Jul 29 2007 - 07:21:24 UTC
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