From: Edgar Toernig <froese@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 14:21:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.6.2 && heads-up on upcoming changes
Message-ID: <20050421162100.068146b9.froese@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <20050421064931.GA31910@pasky.ji.cz>

Petr Baudis wrote:
>
> A little off-topic, anyone knows how to turn off that damn alternate
> screen thing on the xterm level? (Or any other level which makes _all_
> programs not to use it.)

Change the terminfo entry.

The relevant sequence is \E?47h and \E[?47l (save/restore screen) and
often it is paired with \E7 and \E8 (save/restore cursor position)
and \E[2J (clear screen).  [1]

Here it was put in the smcup/rmcup capabilities.

  infocmp >term.src
  vi term.src
  # either remove the sequences or completely disable the
  # capabilities by adding a dot in front of them (.rmcup=...).
  tic term.src

Done.

Ciao, ET.

[1] On strange terminals the escape sequences may be completely
different but these are the common ones.