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Re: [Nmh-workers] show message number scrolls off terminal?
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Paul Fox |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] show message number scrolls off terminal? |
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Sun, 08 Feb 2015 07:51:22 -0500 |
ralph wrote:
> Hi Ken,
>
> > > after? i suppose if your pager does the screen switch thing, then
> > > it might appear to come after, but it's definitely being output
> > > before.
> >
> > Oh, definitely, but the screen switching thing done by
> > curses/termcap/terminfo for xterm. I thought it was pretty
> > standardized now
>
> I turn it off. Stupid idea. I want what's displayed in less, vi, etc.,
> to be left on the screen when I quit because it's often context for what
> I want to continue to do at the command line. One way is a personal
agreed. i disable it too. i've never understood why i would want to
hide data that i had just finished asking to be displayed.
(i also preserve what was on the screen before invoking vi with a small
wrapper that scrolls the screen by $LINES before actually invoking vi.)
paul
> ~/.terminfo/x/xterm, another is less's -X option, which can be in $LESS,
> `set t_ti= t_te=' in ~/.vimrc, etc.
>
> Andy, `s' is less to type than `show', given ~/bin/s. Same for p→pick,
> n→next, b→prev. Also gives the opportunity to apply some local tweaks,
> e.g.
>
> $ cat ~/bin/s
> #! /bin/bash
>
> noshow=
> [[ -t 1 ]] || noshow=-noshow
>
> exec show $noshow "$@"
> $
>
> Cheers, Ralph.
>
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- Re: [Nmh-workers] show message number scrolls off terminal?, (continued)
- Re: [Nmh-workers] show message number scrolls off terminal?, Paul Fox, 2015/02/07
- Re: [Nmh-workers] show message number scrolls off terminal?, Ken Hornstein, 2015/02/07
- Re: [Nmh-workers] show message number scrolls off terminal?, Paul Fox, 2015/02/07
- Re: [Nmh-workers] show message number scrolls off terminal?, Ken Hornstein, 2015/02/08
- Re: [Nmh-workers] show message number scrolls off terminal?, Andy Bradford, 2015/02/08
- Re: [Nmh-workers] show message number scrolls off terminal?, Ralph Corderoy, 2015/02/08
- Re: [Nmh-workers] show message number scrolls off terminal?,
Paul Fox <=
- Re: [Nmh-workers] show message number scrolls off terminal?, Ralph Corderoy, 2015/02/08
- Re: [Nmh-workers] show message number scrolls off terminal?, Paul Fox, 2015/02/08
- Re: [Nmh-workers] show message number scrolls off terminal?, Ken Hornstein, 2015/02/08
- Re: [Nmh-workers] show message number scrolls off terminal?, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2015/02/08
- Re: [Nmh-workers] show message number scrolls off terminal?, Ralph Corderoy, 2015/02/09
- Re: [Nmh-workers] show message number scrolls off terminal?, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2015/02/09
- Re: [Nmh-workers] show message number scrolls off terminal?, Andy Bradford, 2015/02/08
Re: [Nmh-workers] show message number scrolls off terminal?, Ken Hornstein, 2015/02/08