At 2008-08-12T17:07:08-07:00, Krishna Mohan Gundu wrote:
When less exits the entire page history of the less session remains
on the screen. How do I prevent less from doing that?
A brute-force method is to repaint the screen before `less', and
to clear it afterwards, which can be done in `tcsh' with
alias less 'less -c \!* clear'
However, this makes the screen contents prior to the `less' command
scroll off the top and become invisible. To avoid this, you can use
termcap(5) instead of the above alias:
setenv TERMCAP xterm|xterm-color:tc=xterm-xfree86:
setenv LESS -cs
setenv PAGER less
See http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/faq.html#tite and
`/etc/termcap'.
Also are you aware of any articles on the web that summarize the
behavioral differences like these between linux and freebsd.
I used Debian for several years before moving to FreeBSD some years
ago. I don't remember particularly making an effort to deal with the
differences between them, so I can't help you there. FWIW, I found
Matthew Fuller's article `BSD vs Linux' at
http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php
interesting.
Raghavendra.
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