Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 19:45:48 -0800 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: Davide Italiano <davide@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Xin LI <d@delphij.net> Subject: Re: default pager (csh) Message-ID: <CAN6yY1udfAudVeM1KJapTLhnHZwiNtHhTxmk9%2BOh0Xuid6t7-Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1502191806400.40355@wonkity.com> References: <CACYV=-GBD5FmnsQr=KC6Wc9qZ9UAFPQgPmNyS5Jr6Vs2G7dGjA@mail.gmail.com> <54E5232F.3060409@delphij.net> <54E59BF7.40207@freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1502191806400.40355@wonkity.com>
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > On Thu, 19 Feb 2015, Julian Elischer wrote: > > On 2/18/15 3:41 PM, Xin Li wrote: >> >>> >>> The _only_ reason that I can think of is that more(1) does not clear >>> screen for certain terminals (done with 'ti' and 'te' sequences), >>> while less(1) when running as less does. >>> >>> The less(1) behavior can be annoying to some people (sometimes even >>> myself when using less to show contents of a file and ^Z to paste >>> them), and unfortunately quite a few of them also happen to be the >>> more vocal ones when it comes to a change. >>> >> >> I find that behaviour infuriating >> >> I page down to a place to get some text on the screen to use as a >> reference, then exit to run a command with that information, and *bam* the >> info I wanted to use has gone away. >> > > It doesn't do that on csh. Or maybe I figured out how to prevent it long > ago and forgot, but all I use is this: > > setenv PAGER "less -RS" > You probably did what I used to do. Modify the termcaps/terminfo to eliminate this behavior. See Exorcising the Evil Alternate Screen <http://shallowsky.com/linux/noaltscreen.html>. In the past, FreeBSD disabled this by default. It was changed several years ago, but you can change it back as per the aboved referenced article. -- Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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