Package: less Version: 418-1 Severity: normal Is there any reason to use the ti termcap strings when the user presses "F" or "G"? It may be a way of gauranteeing that the screen is clear, but this only needs to be done once, and is already done at startup if "-X" isn't supplied -- just a normal "$ESC[H$ESC[2J"[1] should be enough on subsequent occasions (or the first time it is used when -X is supplied. I notice this because I've turned off xterm's horrible alternate screen switching, and turned on:
.Xdefaults: ! This resource specifies whether or not to ignore the 'alternate screen' ! of applications such as vi. When it is on, these applications will restore ! the contents of the screen when they are exited to what they were before ! they were started. When it is off, the contents of vi will remain on the ! screen after the program is quit. XTerm.VT100.titeInhibit: true !and then allow an extra screenfull of scroll XTerm.VT100.tiXtraScroll: true Whenever I press F or G, I get an extra scroll happening, telling me that less is trying to switch screens to the alternate screen. I would guess this would be completely unecessary (as well as a waste of xterm scrollback buffer). [1] Or whatever the official clear sequence is -- I just took that from the output of 'clear' -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages less depends on: ii debianutils 2.28.5 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.6+20080419-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand less recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
