On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Christian Brabandt <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, September 14, 2011 10:54 am, Rickard Lindberg wrote:
>> If I start vim from a console and execute ":!ls", the whole vim window
>> disappears and I can see the output in the console.
>>
>> If I run vim inside a screen session and execute the same command, the
>> vim buffer is scrolled upwards so that I can see parts of the vim
>> buffer and the output of ls at the same time.
>>
>> It works the same in gvim as in screen plus vim.
>>
>> Is there a vim option to control this behavior? I would like the
>> output to always appear below the vim buffer. Or, the more importan
>> thing is that I don't want to see output of previous command when I
>> run a new command.
>
> I think what happens is, that your terminal allows switching
> between screens. If Vim switches screens, it means, Vim found an entry
> in the terminfo or termcap database for your terminal on how to switch it and
> stores the values in the options 't_ti' (start switching to the
> alternate screen) and 't_te' (switch back from the alternate screen).
>
> So to answer your question on how to disable this, you simply set the
> options t_ti and t_te to an empty value, e.g.
> :set t_ti= t_te=
>
> See also the help at
> :h xterm-screens
>
> regards,
> Christian

I tried this quickly and it seems to work. Awesome. Thanks a lot.

-- 
Rickard Lindberg

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