From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David White Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: When exiting Emacs is there a command to "Clear" screen or "Restore Previous State". Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 14:56:04 GMT Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <8gMRc.2176$Y94.157@newssvr33.news.prodigy.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1092063704 26743 80.91.224.253 (9 Aug 2004 15:01:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 15:01:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 09 17:01:24 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BuBeN-00075F-00 for ; Mon, 09 Aug 2004 17:01:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BuBi8-0005LS-59 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2004 11:05:16 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.glorb.com!prodigy.com!newsmst01a.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr33.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!18382253!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (X11/20040728) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.177.113.51 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net Original-X-Trace: newssvr33.news.prodigy.com 1092063364 ST000 69.177.113.51 (Mon, 09 Aug 2004 10:56:04 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 10:56:04 EDT X-UserInfo1: OHXGRUGD\BSYBFD[@JJLNQMAPJYREQLIQQ]ZMVMHQAVTUZ]CLNTCPFK[WDXDHV[K^FCGJCJLPF_D_NCC@FUG^Q\DINVAXSLIFXYJSSCCALP@PB@\OS@BITWAH\CQZKJMMD^SJA^NXA\GVLSRBD^M_NW_F[YLVTWIGAXAQBOATKBBQRXECDFDMQ\DZFUE@\JM Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:124707 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20043 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20043 Reinhard Kotucha wrote: >>>>>>"David" == David White writes: > > > > Hello everyone, I couldn't find anything on this subject in info > > emacs or google. > > I suppose that you are running emacs in a terminal. It's up to the > terminal program to restore the screen. Make sure that the TERM > variable is set properly. > > For instance, in xterm you should have TERM=xterm. On a Linux console > I have TERM=linux (this might be different in other Linux > distributions, depending on the terminal program beeing used). > > If I set TERM=vt100 the content of the screen is not restored. But > doing this is wrong anyway because it's not a vt100 terminal. > > You can check the value of the variable by typing "echo $TERM" > (without the quotes). > > If the variable is set properly and it doesn't work, either your > terminal program doesn't support this feature or the configuration > file (termcap or terminfo) is broken. > > Regards, > Reinhard > Reinhard, Thanks for the input... Term also returns "linux" for me. Terminfo is the config file & there is a ref to a linux console. I guess it just doesn't support a CLEAR srceen when emacs exits. Good Luck, Dave White