From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 29 05:46:16 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA4AA16A419 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 05:46:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu) Received: from hergotha.csail.mit.edu (hergotha.csail.mit.edu [66.92.79.170]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AF2313C45D for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 05:46:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu) Received: from hergotha.csail.mit.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hergotha.csail.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l6T56oZm096277 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 01:06:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by hergotha.csail.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l6T56nah096276; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 01:06:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 01:06:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200707290506.l6T56nah096276@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> To: current@freebsd.org From: wollman@freebsd.org X-Newsgroups: mit.lcs.mail.freebsd-current In-Reply-To: <86vec4dxcy.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: Organization: None X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (hergotha.csail.mit.edu [127.0.0.1]); Sun, 29 Jul 2007 01:06:50 -0400 (EDT) X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.5 required=5.0 tests=NO_REAL_NAME,SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_PASS autolearn=disabled version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on hergotha.csail.mit.edu Cc: Subject: Re: TERM={xterm-r5,xterm-r6} behaving badly with man(1) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 05:46:17 -0000 In article <86vec4dxcy.fsf@ds4.des.no>, DES writes: >This is the *correct* behaviour. The termcap entry is supposed to >reflect the capabilities of the terminal, not your personal preferences. There's a difference between "personal preferences" and this particular behavior that has nothing to do with "reflecting the capabilities of the terminal". Switching display pages every time full-screen program runs, when the user has not requested it, is plainly obnoxious, and has *nothing* to do with initializing the terminal. >If you don't like it, you can override it using the TERMCAP environment >variable. Likewise. -GAWollman