Tim Connors <[email protected]>
writes:

> But you know the best bit about xterm?  Whoever invented tite was a
> moron, but fortunately we have settings for that:
>
> ! This resource specifies whether or not to ignore the 'alternate screen'
> ! of applications such as vi.  When it is on, these applications will restore
> ! the contents of the screen when they are exited to what they were before
> ! they were started.  When it is off, the contents of vi will remain on the
> ! screen after the program is quit (seriously, who do I shoot to make sure
> ! that this ridiculous concept never appears again?)
> XTerm.VT100.titeInhibit:  true
> !and then allow an extra screenfull of scroll when screen "alternated"
> XTerm.VT100.tiXtraScroll: true
>
> The other terms don't appear to have this for the most part.

I've never noticed because I do the equivalent in .screenrc:

    altscreen on                # GUIs don't clobber scrollback
    ## This makes screen leak about 100MB of memory per day :-(
    # defscrollback 32767

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