Re: TERM={xterm-r5,xterm-r6} behaving badly with man(1)

Daniel Eischen <deischen@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
This is the *correct* behaviour. The termcap entry is supposed to
reflect the capabilities of the terminal, not your personal preferences.
If you don't like it, you can override it using the TERMCAP environment
variable.
Well, something did change recently to get this behavior.

New libncurses perhaps? The termcap file itself hasn't changed since
late 2005.

And why do we have a termcap xterm entry that doesn't exhibit this
behavior?

Because somebody modified it to reflect his personal preference:

xterm|xterm-color|X11 terminal emulator:\
:ti@:te@:tc=xterm-xfree86:

the "ti@:te@:" part disables the save / restore functionality.

See for instance the log messages for src/share/termcap/termcap.src
revisions 1.129 and 1.130.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@xxxxxx
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