On Thu, 19 Feb 2015, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Warren Block <wblock_at_wonkity.com> wrote: > On Thu, 19 Feb 2015, Julian Elischer wrote: > > On 2/18/15 3:41 PM, Xin Li wrote: > > The _only_ reason that I can think of is that more(1) does not clear > screen for certain terminals (done with 'ti' and 'te' sequences), > while less(1) when running as less does. > > The less(1) behavior can be annoying to some people (sometimes even > myself when using less to show contents of a file and ^Z to paste > them), and unfortunately quite a few of them also happen to be the > more vocal ones when it comes to a change. > > > I find that behaviour infuriating > > I page down to a place to get some text on the screen to use as a reference, then exit to run a command with that information, and *bam* the info I wanted to > use has gone away. > > > It doesn't do that on csh. Or maybe I figured out how to prevent it long ago and forgot, but all I use is this: > > setenv PAGER "less -RS" > > > You probably did what I used to do. Modify the termcaps/terminfo to eliminate this behavior. See Exorcising the Evil Alternate Screen. > > In the past, FreeBSD disabled this by default. It was changed several years ago, but you can change it back as per the aboved referenced article. I'm pretty sure I have not done that, it would show up in mergemaster. As far as I can remember, less(1) has never done that clear-the-screen thing on FreeBSD, which is why it is so jarring on Linux.Received on Sat Feb 21 2015 - 01:05:46 UTC
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