Greetings. On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 18:47:32 +0200 Nick <suckless-...@njw.me.uk> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 01:45:04PM +0300, Edgaras wrote: > > Frankly I'm now I'm fairly interested why would people need scroll back. I > > do not use tmux or screen. Well I use dvtm but I dont use scroll back > > functionality there. I find that "less" is mostly sufficient for my needs. > > And apps like etitors, for example vim, provide their own scroll function. > > And from what I hear scroll back sounds to be pain to implement. > > I use less for scrollback generally and it's fine. The reason it is > useful for me to have an alternative is for cases where output is > unexpectedly large, and rerunning the process isn't practical. Also > getting lots of unexpected stderr output won't be handled well by > less by default. > > So yes, it's when something unexpected happens that scrollback is > useful.
But this would be yet another scrollback implementation and scrollback shortcut to care about. Yes, that halt function is what tmux can do already. So I am not imple‐ menting it. Sincerely, Christoph Lohmann
