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From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] Termcap vs terminfo
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 13:06:08 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1501111302010.97981@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C4622955-2DEB-4316-A695-3BACD75D2F1E@orthanc.ca>

On Sat, 10 Jan 2015, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:

> This drives me insane!  When I 'man foo' and find the relevant bits in 
> the document, when I quit out of the pager I want those bits to stay on 
> the screen so I can refer to them, dammit!  There are two shortcuts to 
> this, both involving custom termcap/terminfo entries.

I'm glad I'm not the only one annoyed by this "feature".

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Bliss is a MacBook with a FreeBSD server."
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-01-11  2:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1FD28B19-FA50-4581-BB0A-257B5DDE1890@kdbarto.org>
2015-01-10 22:15 ` David Barto
2015-01-10 22:43   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2015-01-10 22:51     ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2015-01-10 23:02     ` Christian Neukirchen
2015-01-10 23:04       ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2015-01-11 16:48         ` Christian Neukirchen
2015-01-11  2:06     ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2015-01-11  9:16       ` Diomidis Spinellis
2015-01-12 15:36       ` Clem Cole
2015-01-12 16:51         ` [TUHS] Disable "less" screen swapping was: " Russell Rezaian
2015-01-06 21:32 [TUHS] termcap " Mary Ann Horton
     [not found] <mailman.143.1420561935.3354.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2015-01-06 16:51 ` Johnny Billquist
2015-01-06 16:56   ` Dan Cross
2015-01-06 17:33     ` Johnny Billquist
2015-01-06 17:53       ` Dan Cross
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-01-01 17:04 [TUHS] termcap vs terminfo (was: I swear! I rtfm'ed) Warner Losh
2015-01-02 19:13 ` Erik E. Fair
2015-01-05  7:06   ` Peter Jeremy
2015-01-06  0:40     ` John Cowan
2015-01-06 12:22       ` arnold
2015-01-06 16:02         ` [TUHS] termcap vs terminfo Mary Ann Horton
2015-01-06 17:12           ` arnold

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