Re: Switch to alternate screen buffer

2008-07-26 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, Am Donnerstag, 24. Jul 2008, 16:57:40 +0200 schrieb Wojciech Puchar: I know from some old Linux installations that Less and Vim are able to switch to an alternate screen buffer. They use the escape sequences \e[?1047h and \e[?1047l to switch back respectively. How can I activate

Re: Switch to alternate screen buffer

2008-07-26 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 03:03:57PM +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote: Hi, Am Donnerstag, 24. Jul 2008, 16:57:40 +0200 schrieb Wojciech Puchar: I know from some old Linux installations that Less and Vim are able to switch to an alternate screen buffer. They use the escape sequences \e[?1047h

Switch to alternate screen buffer

2008-07-24 Thread Bertram Scharpf
are able to switch to an alternate screen buffer. They use the escape sequences \e[?1049h and \e[?1049l to switch back respectively. How can I activate this in FreeBSD? Thanks in advance. Bertram -- Bertram Scharpf Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany http://www.bertram-scharpf.de

Re: Switch to alternate screen buffer

2008-07-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
In a terminal window I oftenly pipe some progams output to vim or to less: $ someprg | vim - When the program fails and outputs an error message to stderr this will be overwritten by Vim. I know from some old Linux installations that Less and Vim are able to switch to an alternate screen