Always use alternate sceen on alt-d #988
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Fixes screen corruption when
PAGER=moreis used.When ALT+D is pressed while showing document dialog, document in shown in full screen using pager.
IRB assumes that the pager switches to alternate screen, turns off alternate screen at exit, and restore IRB's screen.
Some pager like
moredoes not do that. Screen corrupts. We need to switch to alternate screen manually.To reproduce:
PAGER=more irb(make suremoreis not aliased toless)PAGER="sh -c 'cat;sleep 1'" irb