Re: Gnome-terminal problem with less

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

That is an xterm feature (a second screen buffer) that console
applications can request.  The ZvtTerm widget is just implementing the
feature.  Since the ZvtTerm widget aims to be xterm compatible, it also
implements the second buffer.  Try less with a normal xterm, and you will
see that it does the same thing.  You will probably also notice that a few
other programs use this, such as console mode vim.

If you don't want less to use the second buffer, get the source, comment
out the appropriate bit of code and recompile it (there may be a configure
switch to do this -- I have not checked).

James.

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On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Harry Henry Gebel wrote:

> Hello,
>     With xterm and early versions of gnome-terminal I noticed that with
> less and other programs that use it such as man the output from less
> would go away when you exited the program, returning the screen to the
> state it was in when less ran. Then at some point after gnome 1.0 was
> released it started behaving in a better manner, leaving the output from
> less on the screen. However, it has now returned to it's old behavior,
> and I would like to get it to leave the output from less on the screen
> again. I am using gnome-core 1.0.9 and gnome-libs 1.0.12 . Unfortunatly
> I am not aware at what version it began behaving the way I like or at
> what version it when back to behaving in the way I don't like. Can
> anyone tell me how to fix this behavior?
> 
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