On March 04, 2012 12:51 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >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.
I'd also appreciate very much implementing that option. mintty is promoted here as a replacement for rxvt but obviously lacks a functionality I've come to depend on. My use case is a terminal window in which I don't do much but where a lot of background jobs regularly produce output. A quick glance at the window tells me the current status of those jobs. Not with mintty anymore. Same with the classic use case tail -f logfile. Thanks, Michael
