Hi Thomas! Thomas Dickey wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Using the standard xterm the control-middle mouse button will display > > many options of which one is "Show Alternate Screen". It is possible > > to flip back and forth (inconveniently) to see this manually switch to > > the alternate screen buffer. > > ...what would you regard as a convenient way to flip back/forth?
I was not trying to imply an xterm deficiency, sorry if it came off that way, but rather acknowledging that this is not the type of action that one would do often as a matter of normal high use. If I did not say it that way I was worried my explanation would be construed as a suggestion that they should use the control-mouse all of the time as an SOP instead of something like configuring titeInhibit to simply disable it if they did not like the behavior. I wanted to describe the control-mouse alternate screen switching capability because it is useful to know about and can help people understand what is happening at a better level of detail. People who have never heard of the alternate screen buffer often believe the screen data is simply gone. Being able to flip back and forth to it shows where it is and that it is still available. It provides a better understanding of what is happening under the hood. In my experience there are three types of people with regards to this issue. 1) People who like the alternate screen buffer. 2) People who don't like the alternate screen buffer. 3) People who sometimes like it and sometimes don't like it. :-) Therefore I think that for the people who don't like the behavior that they should simply disable it. They are probably never going to like it. But it is configurable in the personal environment so just configure it. I have seen this be a Major Transition Point for many people who have moved from one environment to another over the years. This may seem like a very small point because literally it is a terminfo field or an X resource or a command line option but I have seen engineers who did not know that (and thought that the screen data was lost) list this feature as a complete showstopper bug, something that *must* be fixed, before moving from one system to another. I agree such extremism over trival points such as this sounds silly but so it has been at times. In fact I will predict that it will again be so in the future. People don't change and this makes predictions such as this pretty safe bets. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
