How screen content saving handled in xterm case?

2013-09-02 Thread Paul Sokolovsky
Hello, Yesterday I spent couple of hours trying to trace how shell screen content is working in case of xterm terminal. While handling in case of linux console is very visible, and otherwise there're some checks for xterm/rxvt stuff, but I couldn't find exact escape sequence(s)/exact place where

Re: How screen content saving handled in xterm case?

2013-09-02 Thread Egmont Koblinger
I think you're looking for alternate screen buffer. egmont On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Paul Sokolovsky pmis...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Yesterday I spent couple of hours trying to trace how shell screen content is working in case of xterm terminal. While handling in case of linux

Re: How screen content saving handled in xterm case?

2013-09-02 Thread Paul Sokolovsky
Hello, On Mon, 2 Sep 2013 11:44:42 +0200 Egmont Koblinger egm...@gmail.com wrote: I think you're looking for alternate screen buffer. Holy cow! Yeah, I saw this, but nowhere the docs says that content is saved in these buffers when switching. And trying it, when switching from normal to alt