I occasionally find the scroll back buffer (which I have set to 1000
lines) a real life saver.  When I used to use xterm I had logging to
file turned on (with ageing of the files) and that, occasionally, was
an even greater life saver!  :-)

There is one problem with rxvt's scroll back buffer though, I think.
It doesn't seem to save *everything* you do like the xterm log file
used to.  In particular if one uses mutt for example, or vi then a
lot of the editing and/or pager screens seem not to be in rxvt's
scroll back whereas thay would have been available (with every
excruciating detail!) in xterm log files.

Is there any way to get a complete history with rxvt?  Is there
something going on with VT102 'alternate screens'?  Is there
something I could be doing in the scroll back buffer to see the
editing which has somehow been hidden by screen control characters?

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