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Date:      Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:34:13 +0100
From:      Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
To:        Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net>, FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Final call for testers: TERM=xterm
Message-ID:  <20091111203413.GJ64905@hoeg.nl>
In-Reply-To: <86fx8kolak.fsf@ds4.des.no>
References:  <20091111101207.GF64905@hoeg.nl> <200911112031.43685.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> <86fx8kolak.fsf@ds4.des.no>

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* Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> wrote:
> The fact that FreeBSD doesn't do this is a bug.  The purpose of
> /etc/termcap is to document the actual capabilities of the terminal, and
> saving and restoring the screen is one of xterm's capabilities, but
> somebody who didn't like it unilaterally decided to force their own
> personal preferences on everyone instead of tweaking their own shell
> configuration (export LESS=3D-X).

As a side note, right now we don't support switching to alternate screen
buffers (just becomes a no-op), but it looks like applications don't
break because of this.

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 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
 WWW: http://80386.nl/

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