Messages in this thread | | | From | (John Henders) | Subject | Re: TTY speedup patch/Menuconfig speed?? | Date | 30 Oct 1996 19:48:37 -0800 |
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In <Pine.LNX.3.95.961030102617.31578K-100000@titus.cfw.com> "William E. Roadcap" <roadcapw@cfw.com> writes:
>One of my pet gripes with ncurses is that it insists on clearing the >screen each time it is initialized, which is everytime Menuconfig runs >lxdialog to draw a new menu (yuk!). The result is SLOW. I don't know how >to get around this without recoding Menuconfig entirely in C, which I >don't want to do.
This is the result of the rmcup entry in terminfo. For some reason the behaviour of this is to save a copy of the screen as well as that annoying clearing effect. This is why after using less compiled with ncurses, when you quit less the file you were viewing disappears and you see the command line screen you were in before you ran less. I hate this so I delete the rmcup (and the corresponding te in termcap) from every machine I work on. I have never found anyone who prefered the default behavior. I've been doing this for several years and never found the absence of rmcup (or te) to adversely affect any program I've used.
While I doubt we can get rid of rmcup on all the linux installations out there, you could put a note in the menuconfig docs suggesting it if people find it annoying.
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