Control: retitle -1 ncurses-bin: ambiguous and possibly buggy behavior of clear with the alternate screen
Grrr... With the complete bug title... On 2021-11-10 12:12:59 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Package: ncurses-bin > Version: 6.2+20210905-1 > Severity: normal > > By default, the "clear" command clears the screen, including its > scrollback buffer, as documented by the clear(1) man page. > > However, when the current screen is the alternate screen, e.g. after > "tput smcup", the "clear" command clears both the alternate screen > and the scrollback buffer of the *main* screen. I'd say that this is > unexpected. The alternate screen does not have a scrollback buffer, > thus when it is the current screen, the "clear" command should not > clear the scrollback buffer. [...] -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
