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

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

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Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org