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

On Sat, Jun 3, 2023 at 10:36 AM Holger Sebert <holger.sebert@mailbox.org> wrote:
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> 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:
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> >> On Sat, 3 Jun 2023 06:40:21 -0400
> >> Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>> 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
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> >>          This one I also hate. and kn ow how to fix :) add this to
> >> your .vimrc
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> >> :set t_te=
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> > 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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> I think the (mis-)feature you are experiencing is called
> “alternate screen”. May this here helps?

Never would of found that searching on my own (chatGPT also had no idea)

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

Now my question: what *MORON* thought this "feature" was a good idea?!?!?

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