Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 01:06:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: wollman@freebsd.org
To: current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: TERM={xterm-r5,xterm-r6} behaving badly with man(1)
Message-ID: <200707290506.l6T56nah096276@hergotha.csail.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <86vec4dxcy.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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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
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