Nicholas Marriott wrote:
- Any time I view a manual page, use the less pager or the vim
editor, I get a fresh screen page. This disturbs me somewhat, because
I'm used to go up in copy-mode, select some text and paste it where
it's needed.
I don't understand what you mean by this.
I
clemens fischer wrote:
Micah Cowan wrote:
I think he's referring to the alternate buffer.
clemens, one way of working around that would be to simply suspend
less or vim (or whatever) with C-z, enter copy-mode and grab what you
want, then exit copy-mode and resume your app.
Oh, I'm doing
Micah Cowan wrote:
I think he's referring to the alternate buffer.
I'm sorry: where is this alternate buffer implemented? Does it have
to do with input.c: * Enter alternative screen mode. and the
*saved_grid pointer? Maybe I should try to add an option for
switching it off, per window or
clemens fischer wrote:
The problem I see looking at lines 1189pp @ input.c is the GRID_HISTORY
flag, which is supposed to be off after handling the sm sequence. I'm
not sure if it should stay on if a new option disables the saved_grid.
My guess would be that this flag controls whether or not
Nicholas Marriott wrote:
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 11:17:03PM +0100, clemens fischer wrote:
What I'd like to see after exiting from or suspending vim is this:
--- (part of) vim output:
...
/*
* Enter alternative screen mode. A copy of the visible
* screen
