Lines are not added to history in alternate screen but in tmux existing history is still available. But I don't think it is a big issue for the scroll wheel not to enter copy mode in alternate screen mode.
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 02:12:09PM +0000, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > On Monday 18 Nov 2013 13:56:41 Nicholas Marriott wrote: > > > tmux can either send arrow keys for the mouse wheel or it can enter copy > > > mode, not both. If it decides using whatever heuristic that it should > > > send arrow keys, then that stops it entering copy mode. > > > > > > If there is no history at all then that's irrelevant and it'd work fine. > > > > Excellent: it's precisely when there is no history that we want this to > happen, so it seems there's no problem. In the case of "less", the > alternate buffer is opened, there is no history, and arrow keys are sent > instead of entering copy-mode. Naturally, text can still be copied with > click+drag. > > > > I'm not sure if it's standard behaviour for the alternate buffer to have > no scrollback history? This seems to be what Konsole does, as I mentioned, > and so arrow keys continue to be sent even as the man page is scrolled > down. > > > > How feasible is this to implement? > > > > Paul > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > DreamFactory - Open Source REST & JSON Services for HTML5 & Native Apps > OAuth, Users, Roles, SQL, NoSQL, BLOB Storage and External API Access > Free app hosting. Or install the open source package on any LAMP server. > Sign up and see examples for AngularJS, jQuery, Sencha Touch and Native! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63469471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > tmux-users mailing list > tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DreamFactory - Open Source REST & JSON Services for HTML5 & Native Apps OAuth, Users, Roles, SQL, NoSQL, BLOB Storage and External API Access Free app hosting. Or install the open source package on any LAMP server. Sign up and see examples for AngularJS, jQuery, Sencha Touch and Native! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63469471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ tmux-users mailing list tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users
