On 2022/05/09 00:37, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) wrote:
> It seems that the -F flag to less is broken. Instead of reverting to
> cat-like behaviour on short files, it prints nothing at all.

You'll probably be happier with at least LESS=Xcq in the environment.
(I use MXciq).

> This is with TERM=xterm. If I set TERM=vt100, it works.  This seems
> to relate to some long-standing oddities I've noticed with the
> 'xterm' terminfo definition OpenBSD uses.  In particular, programs
> like man always switch to the alternate screen buffer when displaying
> output, then switch back afterwards.  I find this very annoying so

Me too.

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