Re: Using pagers like 'less' within screen

2009-09-05 Thread Michael Grant
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 17:48, Benjamin Andresen wrote: > Hey Hugo, > > Hugo Heden writes: > >> [snip] >> Is there a way to tell GNU-screen to use the "default terminal buffer" >> while still letting the programs invoked from within GNU screen use >> the "alternate terminal buffer"? > > altscreen o

Re: Using pagers like 'less' within screen

2009-09-05 Thread Benjamin Andresen
Hey Hugo, Hugo Heden writes: > [snip] > Is there a way to tell GNU-screen to use the "default terminal buffer" > while still letting the programs invoked from within GNU screen use > the "alternate terminal buffer"? altscreen on should be the only thing you need. I have just tested this with

Using pagers like 'less' within screen

2009-09-05 Thread Hugo Heden
Good day all, When I close a 'pager' (like 'less', 'vim', 'emacs -nw', 'man bash' etc) I would like its text content within the terminal to *disappear*, and the terminal to show the content it had before the pager was invoked. I guess these programs print to the so called "alternate terminal buffe