Of course some tool like acme would solve the problem, but it is a different
approach.
For acme, the editor is a plain-text-only multiplexer (much easier to
implement), and replaces every ncurses interfaces, so it is skipping the
problem.
For sam, the editor '!' command, pipes the output to a dedicated buffer, omly
if it is too long, a bit like this in the end:
> I've played around a tiny bit with dumping
> everything that goes through st to a file [...]
Nothing that can handle arbitrary placement of the cursor on the terminal grid,
like "\033[3;6H", just plain text.
But maybe a scrollback of just plain text (and text properties like
"\033[<something>m") would be good enough.
Only recording raw output from commands, logging it to a text file like the
script(1) command and calling a pager on this file while asking for scrollback.
I rarely want to get a scrollback of an ncurses program. Some of them sets an
"alternate screen" signal cleaning the screen ("\033[?1049h") and restoring it
afterward ("\033[?1049l") it ran. Stripping everything in-between would strip
most ncurses programs out of the feed.
