Need to make "less" do a particular thing "right"

Mark Sicignano mark at hsi86.hsi.com
Fri Feb 22 05:21:22 AEST 1991


In article <6451 at idunno.Princeton.EDU> pfalstad at phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul Falstad) writes:
|phil at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN) wrote:
|>I want to make the "less" command NOT switch over to the alterate screen.
|>I did RTFM and could not find this.
|
|I hate this behavior too.  I don't think the FM tells how to get rid of
|it; I checked the source and it looks like there's no option for it.
|Here's the hack I use; works great for me.
|...

At least on our system, we can do a "man xterm" and look at what it
has to say for titeInhibit (class TiteInhibit).

-mark
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Mark Sicignano                                  ...!uunet!hsi!mark
3M Health Information Systems                   mark at hsi.com



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