Re: xterm termcape :ti_at_:te_at_:

From: Thomas Dickey <dickey_at_radix.net>
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 18:31:20 -0400
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 06:26:34PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 01:04:56AM +0400, Pan Tsu wrote:
> > Randy Bush <randy_at_psg.com> writes:
> > 
> > > i know i a perverted, but i really prefer not to have ca_mode.  i.e.
> > 
> > Not to? But the patch makes the opposite effect.
> 
> hmm - I've seen this sort of question often enough that I read it offhand
> as did someone last August - that Randy wants to cancel the alternate
> screen mode:
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-August/019100.html
> 
> (I don't know what ca_mode might be, either)

Googling further finds that referenced in a comment pointing to the
termcap manual, which refers to the terminfo names "enter_ca_mode"
and "exit_ca_mode".  In that context, "ca" refers to cursor-addressing,
which is only related to titeInhibit since the strings happen to be
where xterm's alternate-screen controls are usually put.

bye

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Thomas E. Dickey
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