On March 05, 2012 6:26 PM Ryan Johnson wrote: >On 05/03/2012 5:05 AM, Lemke, Michael SZ/HZA-ZSW wrote: >> 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. >What you describe above sounds more like mintty allowing a visible "end >of output" to scroll off the bottom without following it, a behavior >I've never observed and which would arguably be a bug.
That's not what I said. > >When I fire up something that produces copious output (gcc bootstrap, >compile emacs, etc.) mintty scrolls to track end-of-output unless I >purposefully scroll upward Right, same here. Turning on scroll-to-bottom would change that. It scrolls to bottom immediately. >(in which case I'd prefer it to stay put long >enough to read/copy the text rather than immediately jumping me back to >end-of-output). That depends on what I am doing in such a terminal. I might have a tail -f /var/log/messages & in that session on a system with low syslog activity. I want to be notified immediately if there is output and don't mind being interrupted. >Once the scrollbar is set back to bottom, it again >tracks end-of-output. Correct. And that's the step I want to skip. The si-option does exactly that. > >Am I missing something? Or do your background jobs just produce output >really infrequently compared to 'make all'? In this case yes, but I also like scroll-to-bottom if there's more output. >The latter is the only way I >can see "reading stuff from the past" and "scroll-to-bottom" coexisting >peacefully They usually won't. That’s why this should be an option and not the default. Michael