Is not that the same as st scrollback patch?
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 09:42:34AM +0200, Lehner Georg wrote:
Hello,
A non goal of `st` is to provide a scrollback buffer - `dvtm` or
`tmux` is proposed for this task.
Since launching several `st`s already DOES provide multiple terminals
I couldn't see the point in using them. So I decided to rip the
session and window stuff out of `dvtm` and only keep the scrollback
buffer implementation.
The result is `sb` the scrollback buffer utility. Get it here:
https://at.magma-soft.at/darcs/sb/
https://at.magma-soft.at/darcs/sb/sb-0.1.tar.gz
I run it as follows:
tabbed -c -r 2 st -w '' -t st sb
This gives me a vt environment similar to my battle-scarred
xfce4-terminal but without the steroids AND I can scroll back/forth in
history with Shift-PgUp/Shift-PgDown.
Some notes:
- `sb` does NOT pretend to be a virtual terminal, and leaves the TERM
variable alone (mostly).
- `sb` features less then 2500 sloc and a 49k binary.
`dvtm`: 4000+ slock and 55k.
- `dvtm` effectively implements it's own terminal emulator, which
comprises also most of the remnant code in `sb`.
- `sb` behavior is buggy in several aspects, e.g. window redraw and
"copy mode".
Maybe someone more savvy with vt than I can help rip out everything
that's not needed.
Best Regards,
Georg
