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Re: less, exit but left content on screen



Ralph Katz <ralph.katz@rcn.com> wrote:
> Curious!  I haven't had xterm installed now for some time, so I'm going
> from memory.  Main reason I chose aterm was for the smaller footprint.
> At the moment I have 2 aterms running that would suggest more than
> scrollback buffer size are factors in RSS:

right - there are several factors (some are easy to reproduce, others may
for instance depend on the history of the process).  fwiw, I was also running
xterm compiled for the toolbar, so that would increase xterm's runtime by
some amount.

> $ ps aux |grep aterm
> ralph     2899  0.0  0.9   5956  2360 ?        S    08:05   0:00 aterm
> -tn xterm -sl 5000 -geometry +0-25
> ralph     2900  0.0  0.9   5956  2412 ?        S    08:05   0:00 aterm
> -tr -trsb -rv -sl 100 -sh 95 -geometry +700-350 -e tail -f /var/log/auth.log
> ralph     3064  0.0  0.2   1956   640 pts/1    R+   08:10   0:00 grep aterm
> $

> Anyway, this is OT (my fault), so did aterm solve your original question
> about leaving output from 'less' onscreen after exiting?

...not _my_ original question (the OP's question was answered in effect by
noting that it's a detail of the terminal description rather than the
terminal emulator).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
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