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From: rlk@think.COM (Robert Krawitz)
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Subject: Re: Unpleasant behavior of xterm
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Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 09:35:29 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 24 09:35:29 1987
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In article <6003@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> edmoy@opal.berkeley.edu () writes:
]As the writer of xterm version 6.6, I'm sorry it isn't documented that well.
]Anyways, just change the termcap entry by removing the ti= and te= entries.
]You can even have separate versions of the termcap, with and without.

Suggestion for future versions:  make this capability accessible via
.Xdefaults (xterm.alternatebuffer: {on,off}), a command line option,
and a menu item (for things that do really fancy cursor hackery you
might just want it, but for things like less, top, etc.  you might
not).  This is a lot easier than swapping termcap entries constantly.

I also notice that an alternate screen menu item appears, disabled, in
the modes menu.  This could be enabled.  Then people could switch back
and forth between the screens (people doing so in the middle of
something printing out do so at their own risk).

BTW, thanks to all who answered.

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