Re: [PLUG] how to prevent vi clear the screen

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

You might find the following a useful addition to your .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


Ymmv, depending on your terminal emulator (or terminal, if you're into
ebay).


You can also set LESS in your .bash_profile (cf the less man page):

export LESS="EMX"	# my value

This causes less to assume the following flags on all invocations:

    -E    auto-exit at end of file
    -M	  prompt verbosely
    -X	  inhibit terminal initialization and exit (inhibit ti te for
          those who haven't followed the naming thing going on)

>From "man less":

       -X or --no-init
              Disables  sending  the  termcap  initialization and
              deinitialization strings to the terminal.  This  is
              sometimes  desirable if the deinitialization string
              does  something  unnecessary,  like  clearing   the
              screen.

-Jeff


On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 01:32:17PM -0400, epike@isinet.com wrote:
> > Not sure I quite understand what you are trying to accomplish, but...
> > You could just execute the command from within vi ie, :!<command>.
> 
> yes that would work too..but its a developed habit....years
> of using VI..
> 
> BTW thanks to everybody..I also found the following TERM
> setting that would make this work in VI as well as
> LESS (in xterminal windows):
> 
>          xterm1
> 
> just found the following /etc/termcap entry:
> 
> xterm1|xterm terminal emulator ignoring the alternate screen buffer:\
>         :te@:ti@:\
>         :tc=xterm:
> 
> thanks...
> JondZ
> 
> 
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-- 
 Jeff

 Jeff Abrahamson  <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>



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