On Sun, 16 May 2021 19:03:07 +0200 Baptiste Daroussin <b...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 09:01:53AM -0500, Eric van Gyzen wrote: > > There was a recent discussion about a terminal database update and the new > > Alternate Screen behavior. I'm curious about the resolution, but I can't > > find that discussion. Would someone kindly send a clue-by-four via > > overnight express? > > > > Ultimately, I'd like to know how to get the old behavior back, with no > > alternate screen, and thereby reduce my blood pressure. > > > > Alternatively yours, > > The replies you are receiving are interesting as none of them are right... > > What has been done, it now ncurses from base reads both terminfo and termcap > DB. > It is looking up for terminfo db from localbase as well. > > Base only provides termcap (the old termcap definition, nothing new in there). > if one want the terminfo database which supports alternate screen definition, > he/shre can just pkg install terminfo-db. > But in March terminfo was being built and installed. Maybe he failed to delete /usr/share/terminfo after the change. Or was simply not aware that he had to do that. -- Gary Jennejohn _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
