Dave Mielke, le jeu. 22 mai 2025 14:22:33 -0400, a ecrit: > [quoted lines by Aura Kelloniemi on 2025/05/22 at 20:20 +0300] > >But implementing alternate screen > > I find myself wondering what you're referring to. Are you sure you aren't > thinking of shell job control (i.e. where you press Ctrl-Z to temporarily > suspend the TUI in order to run shell commands)?
No, it's really two storages in the same terminal, and you can switch between the two. Programs have gotten used to having to do this by themselves when the terminal doesn't support it, but having it supported improves support, efficiency, etc. and provides some support that you can't have otherwise. For instance, start an editor such as emacs or vi, and quit it. With the alternate screen support (which they make use of then) you will get back to the content you had before starting the editor. Also, if you run an external command from the editor (e.g. :sh in vim), you will also get back to the content that you had before starting the editor. That can be really convenient when you had run some stuff on the shell, and edit some file only temporarily and get back to your shell work. Samuel _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty
