On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com<mbmiller%2Bl at gmail.com> > wrote: > It seems that with my terminal settings, I can pipe anything to "less" and > then kill "less" and return to my command prompt without disturbing > anything. Most programs that fill the terminal window also work this way > -- when they exit, they remove themselves from the screen and show the > screen as it was when they started. > > This is almost certainly an application issue. It /might/ be a terminal emulation issue.