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For vim specifically, the following line in ~/.vimrc should prevent that:

set t_ti= t_te=

For "man" -- it uses "less" by default as a pager.  So, you can set the
environment variable "LESS" to include the character "X".  "man" .

export LESS=X

Note that the above will also prevent "less" from clearing the screen on
exit.

-- 
Rob



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