On 18/11/2007, Thommy M. Malmström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Thommy M. Malmström wrote:
> > > Seems as if there was a change in default behaviour
> > of the less command between b72 and b76. It now
> > clears the screen at exit which I find most annoying.
> > Or is it the GNOME terminal that has changed???
> > >
> > > Anyway, why have the behaviour changed???
> >
> > The terminfo data for terminal type "xterm" changed.
> > 6569261 xterm, xtermc, xterm-color: smcup/rmcup
> > definitions are incorrect/missing
>
> Looks like someone has tried to fix something that wasn't broken... :-(

Why do you assume this?

The behaviour looks like it could be correct to me. Can you prove that
less is not supposed to do this?

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