Re: screen redraw...any way to turn it off?

[Dave Kuhlman <dkuhlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 11:02:40AM -0400, Brian Blais wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering if there is a way to get jed from restoring the previous 
> terminal contents when exiting.  I am thinking of an option like the 
> program less:   less -X
> 
> which, doesn't send the termcap initialization, and leaves the contents 
> of the file being viewed on the screen.
> 
> I am running jed on Linux.
> 

Actually, when I exit jed, the page of the file I was working on
stays on the screen (until it scrolls off because of other things
I do from the command line). Why?  What controls this?  Do I need
to learn about termcap in order to understand this behavior?

Truth be known, I'd like to have the feature that you describe.

I'm also on Linux.  I run jed inside gterm (the Gnome terminal
window), but the same is true of xterm, I believe ...  *no* wait,
I'm wrong about that. I just tried it, and with xterm, the screen
contents from before starting jed are re-displayed.

And, with Konsole (the KDE terminal) ... re-displays the screen
contents from before entering jed.

Summary:

- gterm -- leaves file on screen.

- xterm -- restores screen from before entering jed.

- konsole -- restores screen from before entering jed.

- Eterm -- restores screen from before entering jed.

What is different about gterm, I wonder?

So, an implementation of this feature request might need to be
able to turn the feature off as well as on.

Dave

-- 
Dave Kuhlman
http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman

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