Thus said Ken Hornstein on Sun, 08 Feb 2015 00:32:23 -0500:
Oh, definitely, but the screen switching thing done by
curses/termcap/terminfo for xterm. I thought it was pretty
standardized now, that's why I'm surprised it didn't work for Andy.
This is why:
$ echo ${PAGER:-NOTSET}
NOTSET
more is the default pager (which is actually less, but behaving like ).
I type show, and the message is displayed, if I scroll the xterm up a
bit (using the scrollbar) I see the (Message f:n) displayed above the
pager. When I quit the pager, whatever the last page of data that was
displayed by show remains on my screen, which I actually prefer.
If I set my PAGER to less, I no longer am able to see the message header
above the pager as I intially reported, and I see the behavior which you
mentioned. After I quit show, I see the (Message f:n) header, which was
probably printed before the terminal jiggering that less does, but only
gets displayed after less returns the terminal under its own control.
Andy
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