On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 10:40:32AM +0200, Laslo Hunhold wrote: > On Mon, 06 Apr 2020 08:48:38 +0200 > "Silvan Jegen" <s.je...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear Silvan, > > > I honestly never use tmux either. If I think I may need the output of > > a program, I just redirect it to a file/editor/pager. > > yeah, same here. But how often do you get some output and think "oh, I > actually needed that" and just re-run it? It works for 99% of the > cases, but in this 1% it takes a bit of work to "reset" an environment > for a second run. In both cases, you needlessly lose time. > > > I have been using st all this time even with those issues that I also > > think are annoying. The workaround for the first one is to just > > redirect output but I never found a workaround for the second issue. > > I always have to remember to not resize the st window (or rather, > > rearrange it in dwm) when I may still need the output. > > This is exactly the anti-pattern I pointed out. Given windows are not > kept at fixed sizes in a tiling wm, st _especially_ needs to satisfy > that it is not "affected" by resizes. > > > Issue 2) I would be glad to have fixed. If a patch to fix both issues > > would only cost us 50-80 LOC, I feel it may be worth it. I am quite > > sure there will be differing opinions on this... > > Yes, I would love to hear from you all what your opinion on this matter > is. > > With best regards > > Laslo >
If what you said is true about having to reimplement a terminal emulator in the scrollback utility, it completely makes sense to integrate it.