On 05/17/2011 10:21 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 09:16:16PM -0700, Micah Cowan wrote: >> On 05/17/2011 06:10 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote: >>> >>> 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: >> >> I think you may find both problems solved if you turn off the >> alternate-screen window option. Hope that helps. > > #1 is much better that way; yay! > > #2 is much worse; instead of overlaying the current terminal data in > a way that comes back when I exit or ctrl-z, it replaces it > permanently/unrecoverably.
"Replaces"? No, it'll scroll it off, I'd think. Which is what you said you wanted - all the backscroll intact. Same as screen (when _its_ altscreen is off, which is obviously how you use it). You can't have it both ways, either in screen or in tmux: either you enable the alternate screen buffer, in which case the previous contents are not visible when you switch to it (in either less or vim), but are available when you quit, or you don't, and exiting leaves the messy remains of the application there (but the previous contents are usually available in the backscroll). -- Micah J. Cowan http://micah.cowan.name/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
