[Techtalk] Evil alternate screens in gnome-terminal

[Rasjid Wilcox]

On Saturday 27 March 2004 14:54, jm wrote:
> Akkana Peck wrote:
> > I was fiddling with gnome-terminal today trying to solve a mutt
> > utf8 problem (long story), and was whining about gnome-terminal's
> > evil mandatory alternate screens.  That's where you're reading a
> > man page, say, and you get to the place that describes exactly
> > what you were looking for, and you hit q so that you can try out
> > the command on the man page .-- and the man page vanishes and all
> > you see are the last few commands you typed.  The same problem makes
> > it impossible to read the last page of any man entry, since that
> > screen goes away if you don't have less prompt you.
>
> Ignore this if I misunderstand the problem, but if the issue
> is to keep the screen from clearing what it had been displaying after
> you exit man (or after you view anything displayed by your default
> pager), you can disable that by setting your $PAGER variable to
> 'less -X'.  Hope this helps someone...

Cool.  Works for me.  :-)

Rasjid.

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