On Mar 2 20:20, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 2 March 2012 08:41, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Mar 1 20:43, Andy Koppe wrote: > >> On 29 February 2012 12:46, Lemke, Michael SZ/HZA-ZSW wrote: > >> > What is the mintty equivalent to rxvt/xterm's > >> > > >> > -si|+si > >> > Turn on/off scroll-to-bottom on TTY output inhibit; > >> > resource scrollTtyOutput has opposite effect. > >> > >> There's no such option. Shift+End will get you back to the current > >> output after looking at something in the scrollback, as will any > >> keypress that sends something to the terminal. > > > > Any chance to implement this? Automatic scroll-to-bottom is a useful > > feature, IMHO. > > I disagree. The point of being able to scroll back to earlier output > is to read and perhaps copy something. When doing that, having the > scrollback jump back to the bottom without the user asking for it is > rather unhelpful. The Windows console does this, and I always found it > really frustrating.
THat's why this is an option in xterm. Every use has another idea how the terminal should behave in this regard, I guess. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
