On Friday 02 November 2007, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 02:29:47PM -0700, Yuri wrote: > > I use vim both on Linux and FreeBSD. > > On Linux after I exit vim original screen content is restored. > > On FreeBSD vim leaves the last content viewed in vim. > > > > How do I make vim preserve the screen? The easiest way is to use a terminal with standard support for alternate screens, like rxvt. > > I don't know how to do that, but it is one Lunix (bash?) feature > that I hate and would like to know how to change it to function > the way it does under FreeBSD (tcsh). This has to do with the terminal capability strings ti and te. Xterm and the FeeBSD console don't have them defined in /etc/termcap (or they are empty). I don't know if syscons even supports alternate screens.
Here is some (linux specific) info about it: http://www.shallowsky.com/linux/noaltscreen.html Hope this helps, Pieter de Goeje _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
