Re: tip of the day: stop prevent 'man' from clearing the screen on exit
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 12:58:12PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 09:52:56AM +1000, Michael Wardle wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 23:50, Benjamin Rutt wrote:
> > > So, the fix was to do a
> > >
> > > export LESS=X
> > >
> > > in my ~/.bashrc. This avoids the screen clearing "problem" on exit
> > > for regular uses of 'less' as well.
> >
> > As the manual page for less(1) states, this stops less from initializing
> > the terminal. On some systems (such as my Red Hat Linux 7.3 server),
> > this also stops the cursor keys performing scrolling, so use of this
> > option may be a compromise if prefer using the cursor keys.
>
> Quite true. It is also deficient in that it only affects less, not vi
> and, essentially, every other app that uses curses. So what's the better
> solution, that fixes all curses apps and doesn't disable cursor keys?
> (And I know it's possible, because that's the way Debian behaved up until,
> IIRC, sometime in the middle of potato. Why Debian decided at that point
> to emulate the brokenness of Red Hat by default and not provide an easy
> way to revert to its previous sensible behaviour remains a mystery...)
It still supports it. You just have to use a dumb enough terminal :)
Frank
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