Re: semi-useful side-effect of tmux sends VM into next/new linux console

2011-08-22 Thread Richard Foley
Belay that observation. While this used to happen, a short time later, now the 'feature' doesn't happen any more. So there must have been something else going on which I'm unaware of. Apologies for the false positive. Ciao Richard -- Richard Foley Ciao - shorter than AufWiederSehen! http://

Re: [PATCH] don't overwrite terminal contents on clear when alternate-screen=off

2011-08-22 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 22-08-2011 22:22:16 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: > Please consider the attached patch. I should have known better, messing with these things is more complicated than it seems. Please ignore, the patch messes up. It seems it's near to impossible to get the same behaviour outside tmux/screen as

Re: [PATCH] don't overwrite terminal contents on clear when alternate-screen=off

2011-08-22 Thread Nicholas Marriott
Don't we do this already? Clear screen scrolls lines into the history? Or do you want something else? It isn't very obvious. On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:22:16PM +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: > Hi list, > > In my quest to get rid of the alternative buffer feature of todays > terminals, I've config

Re: [PATCH] don't overwrite terminal contents on clear when alternate-screen=off

2011-08-22 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 22-08-2011 22:22:16 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: > Please consider the attached patch. I should have known better, messing with these things is

[PATCH] don't overwrite terminal contents on clear when alternate-screen=off

2011-08-22 Thread Fabian Groffen
Hi list, In my quest to get rid of the alternative buffer feature of todays terminals, I've configured tmux with: set -g terminal-overrides 'xterm*:smcup@:rmcup@' set -g alternate-screen off This basically does everything I want, except that compared to a non-tmux session (with terminfo sett