Re: [dev] st: no need for scrollback patch or program by using -o option

2023-01-16 Thread Страхиња Радић
On 23/01/16 12:33, Страхиња Радић wrote: > Most of what's to be said in "defense" of st and other suckless software is > already out there on suckless.org, including the sorry state of XTerm being > the > driving idea behind writing st, which the OP turned upside-down, so that's > one > more

Re: [dev] st: no need for scrollback patch or program by using -o option

2023-01-16 Thread Страхиња Радић
On 23/01/14 09:25, Markus Wichmann wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 07:53:41PM -0600, Dave Blanchard wrote: > > I experimented with st for a week or so, before finally realizing that > > it's poorly-written trash. It has no advantages over XTerm at all. > > > > So where's the patch? > > Given

Re: [dev] st: no need for scrollback patch or program by using -o option

2023-01-14 Thread Enan Ajmain
On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 19:53:41 -0600 Dave Blanchard wrote: > I experimented with st for a week or so, before finally realizing that > it's poorly-written trash. It has no advantages over XTerm at all. Why do you think it's "poorly written"? I looked at the code when I wanted to add a feature. I

Re: [dev] st: no need for scrollback patch or program by using -o option

2023-01-14 Thread Markus Wichmann
On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 07:53:41PM -0600, Dave Blanchard wrote: > I experimented with st for a week or so, before finally realizing that > it's poorly-written trash. It has no advantages over XTerm at all. > So where's the patch? Given that a terminal emulator is a necessary part of the Trusted

Re: [dev] st: no need for scrollback patch or program by using -o option

2023-01-13 Thread Dave Blanchard
On Sun, 08 Jan 2023 04:32:20 -0500 "Greg Reagle" wrote: > I wrote this little wrapper script I call ost: > > <<< > #!/bin/sh > export ST_LOG_FILE=$(mktemp) || { printf '%s\n' "$0: cannot create temp file" > >&2 ; exit 1; } > st -o "$ST_LOG_FILE" "$@" > rm "$ST_LOG_FILE" > >>> > > If some

[dev] st: no need for scrollback patch or program by using -o option

2023-01-08 Thread Greg Reagle
I wrote this little wrapper script I call ost: <<< #!/bin/sh export ST_LOG_FILE=$(mktemp) || { printf '%s\n' "$0: cannot create temp file" >&2 ; exit 1; } st -o "$ST_LOG_FILE" "$@" rm "$ST_LOG_FILE" >>> If some output scrolls past that I want to go back and see, I look at its "$ST_LOG_FILE" in