Re: screen height issue

2014-03-15 Thread Michael Grant
I agree with your second point that it will send a lot of data down the line uselessly. I don't think it's a great idea but I couldn't think of any other way to do it. However, I did just think of something What if there were a text based scrollbar in Screen that sat on the left (or right)

Re: screen height issue

2014-03-15 Thread Jim Mahood
On Sat, 15 Mar 2014, Michael Grant wrote: Yes I'm aware of this.   But what would be cool is if the scrollbar could be somehow linked to the scrolling in copy mode.   One thing I can imagine is just filling the of screen lines each time one changes screens.   This would of course create extr

Re: screen height issue

2014-03-15 Thread Jim Mahood
On Wed, 12 Mar 2014, Michael Grant wrote: This brings up another question which I've had for a while.  When you switch screens, the scroll buffer in putty above contains leftover stuff from the other window.  Might it be possible to somehow fill or use some alternate page in putty so that the

Re: screen height issue

2014-03-15 Thread Michael Grant
Yes I'm aware of this. But what would be cool is if the scrollbar could be somehow linked to the scrolling in copy mode. One thing I can imagine is just filling the of screen lines each time one changes screens. This would of course create extra flicker as lines scrolled by. I have a script t

Re: GNU Screen maintainer

2014-03-15 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 7:19 PM, Jostein Berntsen wrote: > > On 21.02.14,10:27, Carsten Mattner wrote: > > Is there a GNU screen or maintainer or if there isn't shouldn't someone else > > take the ball and start making releases? > > > > +1. I agree that a new release whould be done now. Sadrul: Ha

Re: screen height issue

2014-03-15 Thread David T. Pierson
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 10:10:38PM +, Michael Grant wrote: > I use screen on bsd and debian through putty. On the freebsd system (which > is quite old), I can use the scroll bar in the window. On the debian > system, screen itself seems to manage the lines off the top of the putty > window, I