Re: xterm/rxvt screen clearing / restoration
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On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Benjamin Low wrote:
> I'm running Debian 2.1, and have an annoying problem with xterm and rxvt
> where often the screen fails to be restored properly after running
> vi/vim/elvis/less/anything else which ordinarily restores the terminal
> screen after exiting.
>
> When I say 'fails to be restored', it's kind of like the current input
> line is moved up the window, mixed in with the previous shell output.
I've noticed the same thing.
More info: When using vi, the cursor begins at (or just below) the last
screen-line used for any insertion-deletion command, unless that command
was undone with U or that command was done on the first line, or a few
other random circumstances.
> I'm guessing this is a termcap issue - I don't know much about
> termcap/terminfo stuff, but from the terminfo man page I see there's a
> restore_cursor capability, amongst others. I've tried setting my TERM
> variable to variations of xterm, xterm-debian, rxvt, etc, but without
> success.
Possibly vi/less/etc are messing the variable this uses?
> Any suggestions?
Sorry... i have no idea how to fix it.
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