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

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=

	That removes the escape sequence vim emits on close.

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Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>