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I love screen. I use it on a daily basis for ~10 years. What still bothers me mightily is that, up to this day, nobody has bothered to get the history scrolli
by moe 16y ago
I love screen.
I use it on a daily basis for ~10 years.
What still bothers me mightily is that, up to this day, nobody has bothered to get the history scrolling right (neither in tmux, btw). You still have to press an awkward key combination to switch to "copy mode", the normal mechanisms (PGUP, mousewheel, scrollbar) only result in garbage.
I've tried various partial fixes ("altscreen off") but none works properly across sessions or with multiple windows. Years back I even tried to patch screen myself but had to surrender over the (for me) crufty code-base.
And that despite the solution being fairly obvious: Just redraw the entire window while scrolling, just like irssi and plenty other console apps do it. And just like screen itself does it in copy-mode.
I wish someone would finally take on this issue...
- bricestacey 16y agoYou can scroll through the history of your terminal, but not of individual screens by adding this to your .screenrc file. termcapinfo xterm|xterm-color ti@:te@ Not 100% there, but does well for me.
- moe 16y agoYes I have that, it's the partial solution I mentioned. It unfortunately doesn't preserve the history during detach/reattach. And the history gets scrambled when you switch between windows.