[quoted lines by Aura Kelloniemi on 2025/05/22 at 21:54 +0300] >When a full-screen program, (like less, emacs or vim) starts, it activates the >alternate screen. It then draws its interface to this display buffer. Once the >program exits (or suspends), it returns the main screen, thereby also >restoring the terminal contents to the exact same point where they were before >the program started.
This isn't my experience. I logged into a new session in order to get screen out of the picture. Then I tried running vim and less. In either case, when I exited I was on a shell command prompt with the app's (vim or less) final output just above it. -- I believe the Bible to be the very Word of God: http://Mielke.cc/bible/ Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | WebHome: http://Mielke.cc/ EMail: [email protected] | Ottawa, Ontario | Twitter: @Dave_Mielke Phone: +1 613 726 0014 | Canada K2A 1H7 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://mielke.cc/xmother.html (Letter from a Feminist ex-Mother) _______________________________________________ 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
