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Date:      Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:13:59 -0400
From:      Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Switch to alternate screen buffer
Message-ID:  <20080726171359.GA25742@saltmine.radix.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080726130357.GB10056@marge.bs.l>
References:  <20080724133631.GA31077@marge.bs.l> <20080724165727.O3416@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20080726130357.GB10056@marge.bs.l>

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On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 03:03:57PM +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> Am Donnerstag, 24. Jul 2008, 16:57:40 +0200 schrieb Wojciech Puchar:
> >> I know from some old Linux installations that Less and Vim are able to
> >> switch to an alternate screen buffer. They use the escape sequences
> >> "\e[?1047h" and "\e[?1047l" to switch back respectively.
> >>
> >> How can I activate this in FreeBSD?
> >
> > no idea but do
> >
> > someprg 2>&1|vim -
>=20
> No. I will not waive. This is not Microsoft here.
>=20
> Edit /usr/share/misc/termcap. Change the following entry:
>=20
>   xterm|xterm-color|X11 terminal emulator:\
>           :ti=3D\E[?47h:te=3D\E[?47l:tc=3Dxterm-xfree86:

47 by itself won't clear the alternate buffer (probably not what is intende=
d).
For more information

	http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_tite

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Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

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