On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:36 AM, Cameron Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>On 2008-11-04 06:28 +0100, Matt Miller wrote: > >>>> > Also, I don't want the editor to do whatever special screen buffer >>>> > swapping, or whatever it is, that prevents me from scrolling back in >>>> > my terminal history when the editor is open, and then clears away >>>> > the screen and redisplays what was there before after the editor is >>>> > closed. >>> >>> That's still an annoyance. This whole take-over-the-screen-because-that- >>> must-be-what-you-really-want thing has got be turn-offable. > >>This is a feature of your terminal (and ncurses). Please consult your >>terminal's manual how to turn the alternate screen off. In xterm, you >>need to set the `titeInhibit' resource to true. > > Alternatively, set TERM=vt100 as that terminal does not have the escape > codes defined for this feature. > >
This behaviour can be specified in vim though, by adding the following to ~/.vimrc: set t_ti= t_te= "Don't use alternate screen hi LineNr ctermfg=lightgray "Or whatever colour you want the line numbers to be (Check the colour list at http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/syntax.html#cterm-colors) -Nye -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
