On Monday 18 Nov 2013 15:35:20 Nicholas Marriott wrote:
> 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.
Oh yes; I see that if I enter copy-mode in Vim, I can scroll back to the
console before Vim
was invoked. In my opinion, this actually feels a little confusing. It's
never really occurred
to me that I might be able to scroll back, because in my head when I enter a
new buffer,
the old one is hidden away behind the current buffer. To get back to it, I
would always do
":sh" in Vim to return to the primary buffer and enter copy-mode there, then
return to Vim.
Similarly for man/less, although it would mean actually exiting. Konsole
certainly doesn't
allow me to scroll back until I leave the alternate buffer.
So I actually think implementing this behaviour in the alternate buffer would
provide a
double-pronged element-of-least-surprise advantage:
1) It supports the concept that the primary buffer is hidden away behind the
alternate
buffer, like a pop-up window, and therefore temporarily inaccessible.
2) It makes it possible for mouse scrolling in "man", "less", and others "just
work" in the
way they do outside of term. (Or at least I assume terminals other than
Konsole have this
behaviour too.)
Paul
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