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Date:      Fri, 2 Nov 2007 18:09:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com>
To:        Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
Cc:        Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>, yuri@tsoft.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vim doesn't preserve the terminal content
Message-ID:  <20071102180753.Q89485@bravo.pjkh.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071102222500.GB49562@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
References:  <1194038987.472b96cb09026@webmail.rawbw.com> <20071102222500.GB49562@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>

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>> I use vim both on Linux and FreeBSD.
>> On Linux after I exit vim original screen content is restored.
>> On FreeBSD vim leaves the last content viewed in vim.
>>
>> How do I make vim preserve the screen?
>
> I don't know how to do that, but it is one Lunix (bash?) feature
> that I hate and would like to know how to change it to function
> the way it does under FreeBSD (tcsh).

I hate it when it restores my screen and to prevent that in linux I added 
this to my .vimrc:

set t_ti =
set t_te =

So read about whatever those options mean and set them accordingly...

-philip



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