[ILUG] Stop vi clearing screen on exit

[Conor Daly]

On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 03:22:10PM +0100 or thereabouts, Colm Buckley wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 May 2001 15:14, Conor Daly wrote:
> 
> > A gnome term returns "xterm" in $TERM but that doesn't necessarily
> > indicate what termcap entry it's using.
> 
> Actually, it does.  Curses uses the TERM variable to *determine* which
> termcap/terminfo entry to use.  It's not the gnome-terminal which
> reads termcap/terminfo, it's curses-using progrms (like vim).
> 
> However, it does appear from a little googling that gnome-terminal
> doesn't accept the titeInhibit resource, so this might be a blind
> alley.
> 
> However, a lot of poking in the vim help files reveals that putting:
> 
> :set t_ti= t_te=
> 
> in your .vimrc will inhibit the sending of these codes, so that might
> work for you.  Note : other curses programs like less and whatnot
> will still exhibit the old behaviour - if you want this to apply to
> all programs, you could edit the terminfo source and change the smcup
> and rmcup entries for xterm...  (see "man tic" and "man terminfo").

OK,  I've given him 

xterm*titeInhibit: true

in his .Xdefaults and 

:set t_ti= t_te=

in his .exrc  So he gets the following..

In an xterm, no alternate screen is used.  

In a gnome-term, when vi exits, its stuff is left on screen, when man
(that's less anyhow innit?) exits, the screen clears.

I think that's enough to keep him happy since he can do all that as a user.

Thanks,

Conor
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