Re: TERM={xterm-r5,xterm-r6} behaving badly with man(1)

From: Rong-en Fan <grafan_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:06:08 +0800
On 7/29/07, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des_at_des.no> wrote:
> 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.

Just a note, ncurses in base is updated to 5.6 in late Jan.

> >  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@:te@:" 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
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> Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des_at_des.no
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