Re: Final call for testers: TERM=xterm

On Wednesday 11 November 2009 21:05:38 Ben Kelly wrote:
> On Nov 11, 2009, at 2:31 PM, Mel Flynn wrote:
> > On Wednesday 11 November 2009 11:12:07 Ed Schouten wrote:
> >> - Better compatibility with other operating systems.
> >
> > I'm not in a position to test this at the moment, but does this mean our
> > console will now also "fold" paging/editor applications?
> > I hate this feature with a passion on linux and I've unable to find out
> > how to disable it, especially since the few linux machines I manage have
> > no termcap or terminfo database on the places they say they should be.
> > What I mean with folding is:
> > root_at_www:~# man less
> > Reformatting less(1), please wait...
> > root_at_www:~#
> >
> > As you can see, no more less(1) manpage (it's not limited to less, vim
> > etc as well). When I change to vt100 terminal, this doesn't occur, hence
> > my worry about the above sentence in combination with $subject. IF this
> > is going to be the default, I would appreciate an rc.conf setting or at
> > least an explanation of what triggers this behavior and how to turn it
> > off in the manpage, as various quests in google have yielded neither
> > information nor solution.
> 
> Does this page help at all?
> 
>   http://www.shallowsky.com/linux/noaltscreen.html

*bow*. Altscreen....it helps if you know what you're looking for.
-- 
Mel