On 10/18/13 at 05:01pm, Edgaras wrote: > > On 16/10/2013, Jochen Sprickerhof <d...@jochen.sprickerhof.de> wrote: > > > I've implemented a (limited) scrollback buffer for st. Thanks to v4hn > > > for testing and improving first versions. > > > As for scrollback in terminal, at first it seemed very annoying as I was uses > to it. But after using st without that I really dont see much need for that, > and would consider it bloat, since it is already implemented in other places. > > Lets go about them for a bit. > > There are multiplexers >
> Next we have TUI apps like irssi or VIM where scrollback in terminal makes no > sense for them, since they handle it themselves. > > And so there is less, for paging pure CLI programs. There is also file > redirection. One very important case in favour of a scrollback buffer, which isn't covered by any of your workarounds, that I can see, is interactive environments such as, say, ncftp, or REPLs. Manolo
