On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 11:07 PM Kevin Oberman <rkober...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We went through this "alternate screen" thing about 12 or more years ago > and almost everyone hated it except those used to Linux behavior. I don't > think it ever made it into a release after all of the screams of pain. It > drives me crazy when editing on the Linux Mint VM I run from time to time. > I've never been able to figure out why anyone would find it an improvement > an I suspect it was inserted in some Unix code back in the days of the > VT100 or VT220 terminal which were super popular and supported it. I guess > it's because someone thought it was a cool thing and that terminal based > editors were the perfect use. > > In any case, please make it STOP! > -- > Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer > E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com > PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683 > Sorry for the noise, but in my case it turned out to be specific to my terminal emulator - Konsole. It has an option called "reflow lines when terminal resized". Turning it off restored an old behavior for me. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
