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Date:      Fri, 26 Feb 2021 17:55:42 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
To:        Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>
Cc:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: 2a50a9de8340 - main - terminfo: add terminfo database
Message-ID:  <20210226175542.GA85424@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <202102261420.11QEKJoX006569@slippy.cwsent.com>
References:  <202102251327.11PDR4eC083842@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <202102261420.11QEKJoX006569@slippy.cwsent.com>

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On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 06:20:19AM -0800, Cy Schubert wrote:
> ...
> The use of the alternate screen buffer is one of the things I hate about
> Linux. After running vi or top I expect the output to remain on the screen
> so I can use some bit of information in my next command. We now have this
> behaviour too.

Huge +1.  On GNU/Linux, I have to suppress this shit so it won't mess with
my xterm(1) screen buffer; screen(1) is particularly annoying until you put
"termcapinfo xterm ti@:te@" line in your ~/.screenrc.

I'm quite surprised to see this checked in, admittedly.

./danfe



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