Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:21:19 +0200
From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
Cc: current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: TERM={xterm-r5,xterm-r6} behaving badly with man(1)
Message-ID: <866443h8fk.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0707282347310.24233@sea.ntplx.net> (Daniel Eischen's message of "Sat\, 28 Jul 2007 23\:50\:07 -0400 \(EDT\)")
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Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> writes:
> On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav wrote:
> > This is the *correct* behaviour. The termcap entry is supposed to
> > reflect the capabilities of the terminal, not your personal preferences.
> > If you don't like it, you can override it using the TERMCAP environment
> > variable.
> Well, something did change recently to get this behavior.
New libncurses perhaps? The termcap file itself hasn't changed since
late 2005.
> And why do we have a termcap xterm entry that doesn't exhibit this
> behavior?
Because somebody modified it to reflect his personal preference:
xterm|xterm-color|X11 terminal emulator:\
:ti@:te@:tc=3Dxterm-xfree86:
the "ti@:te@:" part disables the save / restore functionality.
See for instance the log messages for src/share/termcap/termcap.src
revisions 1.129 and 1.130.
DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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