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Re: Down with smcup!
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Thomas Mellman |
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Re: Down with smcup! |
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Wed, 03 Apr 2002 16:30:48 +0200 |
Thomas Dickey wrote:
> so far you've spent enough words to have said what the problem is.
>
> (I can guess about more than one possibility).
Hmmm. Let's see. Some people think it's cool that when you leave a curses
program, everything that was in their window disappears. This is so cool that
over the years, it has taken over more and more. It's the Sun way. I guess
it came - at some point - from Berkeley.
Unfortunately, other people don't like it. Like me. When I look at a manpage,
for example, I leave the pager and expect to be able to see the command I just
looked up.
I've gotten used to having a private TERMINFO entry, by infocmp()ing the
standard one and removing smcup/rmcup. But in the latest cygwin software
(which is - otherwise - incredibly wonderful) when I remove the ..cup
attributes,
less() and vi() start making all kinds of noise that my terminal emulation is
broken.
Of all the nerve.
I suspect that this is the final coup-de-grace of the old Berkeleyers against
us remaining AT&Ters.
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Re: Down with smcup!, DJ Delorie, 2002/04/03