Re: Final call for testers: TERM=xterm

From: Ed Schouten <ed_at_80386.nl>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:34:13 +0100
* 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/

Received on Wed Nov 11 2009 - 19:34:15 UTC

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