* Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des_at_des.no> wrote: > The fact that FreeBSD doesn't do this is a bug. The purpose of > /etc/termcap is to document the actual capabilities of the terminal, and > saving and restoring the screen is one of xterm's capabilities, but > somebody who didn't like it unilaterally decided to force their own > personal preferences on everyone instead of tweaking their own shell > configuration (export LESS=-X). As a side note, right now we don't support switching to alternate screen buffers (just becomes a no-op), but it looks like applications don't break because of this. -- Ed Schouten <ed_at_80386.nl> WWW: http://80386.nl/
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