Re: prevent screen region clearing

2020-12-21 Thread Tavis Ormandy
On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 08:38:27AM -0800, Tavis Ormandy wrote: > Hey, is there any way to prevent screen from clearing a region when the > process exits? > I came up with a solution, I don't think it's very pretty but it works. GNU tail has a --pid option that waits for a pro

prevent screen region clearing

2020-12-21 Thread Tavis Ormandy
Hey, is there any way to prevent screen from clearing a region when the process exits? I'd like to use `split -v`, with a shell on the left and some notes on the right. If I C-a tab to switch to the empty region and `:screen cat notes.txt`, the region is immediately cleared. I could use less or w