Re: xterm et al - window is cleared after less etc

[Simon Liddington <sjl zepler org>]

add -X to LESS environment variable to fix less which will probably fix man if 
it is set to use less. Your on your own with vi.

Simon

On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 04:05, Jan wrote:
> Sorry to post this question to this list, but I'm not quite sure where
> to go; and anyway, it is probably something everybody here knows the
> answer to.
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> I am getting increasingly annoyed by this misfeature: when I leave a
> full screen application such as man, less or vi the screen is cleared,
> so I can't see what I was just looking at. I know there is a way to turn
> it off - but which? It goes away BTW when I set TERM to something else
> than xterm, but that is at best a bad workaround.
>
> /jan
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