[wellylug] Take a hint

[jfouhy at paradise.net.nz]

David Antliff wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 jfouhy at paradise.net.nz wrote:
>>Is there any equivalent with aterm or rxvt to 'xterm -xrm XTerm*titeInhibit:true'?
>>Because the default behaviour (using an alternative screen for programs like
>>less, etc) irritates me intensely.  But I can't see anything in the man pages
>>about this resource (or anything equivalent).
> Sorry I really don't understand the question. 'alternative screen' ?

In a normal rxvt, say, if I type 'man less', and then hit (q), my screen will
look like this:

-----------------------------------------------------
yendor [Wed Sep 08, 11:24]: [~] $ man less
Reformatting less(1), please wait...
yendor [Wed Sep 08, 11:24]: [~] $ 
-----------------------------------------------------

This is because rxvt does something funky where the man page is displayed on an
alternative screen, and when you quit your pager, it restores the original screen.

What I vastly prefer is that this doesn't happen, so I would get:

-----------------------------------------------------
LESS(1)                                                          LESS(1)

NAME
       less - opposite of more

SYNOPSIS
       [...]
DESCRIPTION
       Less is a program similar to more (1), but which allows backward
       move-ment in the file as well as forward movement.  Also, less 
       does not have to read the entire input file before  starting,  so 
yendor [Wed Sep 08, 11:24]: [~] $ 
-----------------------------------------------------

To get this behaviour in xterm, I need to set XTerm*titeInhibit to true.  But I
can't see anything equivalent in rxvt or aterm.

-- 
John.