Re: totally OT: How to prevent Linux guest from clearing screen entering/leaving vim

On 6/3/23 14:34, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 3, 2023 at 7:00 AM Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 3 Jun 2023 06:40:21 -0400
>> Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 1) The terminal clears (thus ruining any possibility of scrolling back
>>> to stuff I want to reference) when I enter and leave vi.... i.e.
>>> command line stuff is not visible inside vim and vim is not visible
>>> (with no amount of scrolling back) if I am in command line mode.. .
>>> this makes fixing compiler errors ***VERY*** annoying since I have an
>>> increased cognitive load from having to remember the line number and
>>> the error... It also make cutting and pasting next to impossible
>>
>>          This one I also hate. and kn ow how to fix :) add this to
>> your .vimrc
>>
>> :set t_te=
> 
> Still doesn't completely solve it because once I leave vim (or am in
> vim) I still can not scroll back before the start of the vim session
> (i.e. still can't see the compiler [javac] errors).... it does help in
> being able to cut and paste stuff from vim to other places but not the
> other way around
> 

I think the (mis-)feature you are experiencing is called
“alternate screen”. May this here helps?

https://www.shallowsky.com/linux/noaltscreen.html