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From: sja@sirius.hut.fi (Sakari Jalovaara)
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Subject: Re: Type-ahead in unix
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Date: 14 Apr 91 19:07:40 GMT
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In-Reply-To: nazgul@alphalpha.com's message of 12 Apr 91 23:36:42 GMT

>>you enter and leave a cbreak/curses application like an editor, or less: when
>>I leave less, I want the last thing I've been looking at to still be on the
>>screen, thanks.

>Have you used an xterm?  They don't leave vi sessions sitting on the screen
>after you use them - you go back to the transcript instead.

Well...  That depends.  I've set up xterm so that it doesn't lose what
it was showing.  All you need is a suitable termcap entry; those who
like it the other way can set their TERM to xterm-2p (2p for 2 pages;
some BSD documentation recommends this naming convention):

vs|xterm|vs100|xterm terminal emulator (X window system):\
	[... usual xterm entry except te and ti entries removed ...]
vs-2p|xterm-2p|vs100-2p|xterm terminal emulator (with two screens) (X window system):\
	:te=\E[2J\E[?47l\E8:ti=\E7\E[?47h:tc=xterm

Matter of taste.
									++sja