I came, over the years, to rely very much on screen's backscroll behaviour[1], so certain aspects of tmux's behaviour have surprised me, and I'm wondering if they can be changed.
1. When I quit "less", it goes away. I'm used to the output of less staying in the shell window/the terminal backscroll. I really prefer it that way. Is that fixable? 2. When I launch vim or less, it ... this is hard to describe ... it covers the whole screen's worth of stuff. So, let's pretend my terminal is 2 lines and the backscroll is 5 lines; current status of backscroll is: 11111111111111111111 22222222222222222222 33333333333333333333 44444444444444444444 55555555555555555555 I then "less" a file of X and Y chars: 11111111111111111111 22222222222222222222 33333333333333333333 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY This means that the 4 and 5 lines (which, remember, is an entire terminal-height's worth of stuff) are unavailable to the backscroll system; it is very common for me to launch vim and then use screen's backscroll to grab the last bit of stuff I saw, to paste in, but I can't do that if it's not there because the vim window "covered" it. Ctrl-z brings it all back, which is also jarring. #1 is much more annoying than #2, but I suspect they derive from the same terminal feature or whatever. -Robin [1]: I'm sorry that I'm comparing tmux to screen all the time; no offense is intended, it's just the only comparitor I have. :) tmux is fantastic in its own right. -- http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false" is "na nei". My personal page: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran developers boost performance applications - including clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ tmux-users mailing list tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users
