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From: alfred@unisql.UUCP (Alfred Correira)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: odd behavior using elm under xterm
Keywords: xterm command prompt
Message-ID: <1108@unisql.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jan 91 14:21:36 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: UniSQL, Inc., Austin, Texas, USA
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Whenever I read a message in an xterm shell (TERM=xterm)
I always get a ``final screen'' prompt for short messages
(< 1 screenful of stuff) to which I must respond with a
RETURN or ``q'', etc., in order to get to the usual Elm
``Command ('i' to return to index): '' prompt.  This is
the same behavior I experienced the one time I used Elm
with Sun's cmdtool (which I chalked up to cmdtool emulation
deficiencies and resolved never to use Elm with cmdtool 
again ;-).  With any other TERM setting -- i.e., under
any other shell -- that I have used (sun, wy60, etc.) I
immediately get the Elm prompt after short messages.  This
happens with any of {less, more, page} that I use for a
pager, but not for builtin+, which Does the Right Thing.
Does anyone know how I get the non-builtin pagers to do the
right thing as well with Elm (they to do the right thing
when invoked directly from the xterm shell ...)?
-- 
alfred
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