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Operating Systems AIX Preventing screen redraw when "more" exits Post 302524378 by bakunin on Monday 23rd of May 2011 07:26:03 AM

05-23-2011

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Preventing screen redraw when "more" exits

In previous releases of AIX (<5.3) the "more" command didn't redraw the screen upon exit. This helped when searching in a text document or man page because one could look for the relevant part of it, exit and use the left-over at the screen as reference for typing the next command.

Alas, this behaviour has changed: upon exiting "more" the screen is restored to what it was before invoking "more", thereby erasing exactly the information one was looking for. I was searching for a remedy and found out the following:

"more" is configured by an environment variable "MORE", which can be set - depending on which scope it should have - in "/etc/environment", one users ".kshrc" script or at the command line. Add/execute the following line:

Code:

MORE="-W notite" ; export MORE

(In "/etc/environment" you don't need the "export")

Now, if one knows how to accomplish the same for the exit of "vi" (or "view") I'd be glad to hear the solution.

I hope this helps.

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xmstringsegmentcreate

XmStringSegmentCreate(library call)									       XmStringSegmentCreate(library call)

NAME

       XmStringSegmentCreate -- A compound string function that creates a compound string

SYNOPSIS

       #include <Xm/Xm.h>
       XmString XmStringSegmentCreate(
       char * text,
       XmStringTag tag,
       XmStringDirection direction,
       Boolean separator);

DESCRIPTION

       This  function is obsolete and exists for compatibility with previous releases. It can be replaced by using a combination of XmStringCompo-
       nentCreate and XmStringConcat.  XmStringSegmentCreate is a high-level function that assembles a compound string consisting of a	font  list
       element tag, a direction component, a text component, and an optional separator component.

       The  function  allocates  space	for  the  returned compound string.  The application is responsible for managing the allocated space.  The
       application can recover the allocated space by calling XmStringFree.

       text	 Specifies a NULL-terminated string to be used as the text component of the compound string.

       tag	 Specifies the tag component to be associated with the text.  The value XmFONTLIST_DEFAULT_TAG is for compatibility with  previous
		 releases.

       direction Specifies the direction of the text.

       separator A  value  of False means the compound string does not have a separator at the end. A value of True, means a separator immediately
		 follows the text component.

RETURN

       Returns a new compound string.

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