On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 09:16:16PM -0700, Micah Cowan wrote: > On 05/17/2011 06:10 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > >I came, over the years, to rely very much on screen's backscroll > >behaviour[1], so certain aspects of tmux's behaviour have > >surprised me, and I'm wondering if they can be changed. > > > >1. When I quit "less", it goes away. I'm used to the output of > >less staying in the shell window/the terminal backscroll. I > >really prefer it that way. Is that fixable? > > > >2. When I launch vim or less, it ... this is hard to describe > >... it covers the whole screen's worth of stuff. So, let's > >pretend my terminal is 2 lines and the backscroll is 5 lines; > >current status of backscroll is: > > I think you may find both problems solved if you turn off the > alternate-screen window option. Hope that helps.
#1 is much better that way; yay! #2 is much worse; instead of overlaying the current terminal data in a way that comes back when I exit or ctrl-z, it replaces it permanently/unrecoverably. -Robin -- http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false" is "na nei". My personal page: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran developers boost performance applications - including clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ tmux-users mailing list tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users
