RE: hardstatus and putty scrolling

2020-08-28 Thread Michael Grant
> Would you mind sharing your .screenrc? I feel like I could learn a lot from > it. Or if you have a dotfiles repo on github that would be fantastic too. Sure. I don’t have them in a public repo. If anything isn’t clear, please ask. Hope this is interesting/helpful to someone! I almost alway

Re: hardstatus and putty scrolling

2020-08-28 Thread Nicholas Marriott
tmux has the same limitations as screen here - no terminal provide a way for applications to manipulate their scrollback beyond turning it off and on and scrolling lines into it. So both tmux and screen have to provide their own scrollback to work across multiple inner terminals. tmux has good sup

RE: hardstatus and putty scrolling

2020-08-27 Thread Michael Grant
Yeah I suspected this wouldn’t be possible. I think about the only way might be to have PuTTY (or KiTTY) add an option to remove that line from it’s scrollable region—a hack at best. Last night I did some reading up on tmux. Tmux apparently has something like what I was talking about. Tmux l

Re: hardstatus and putty scrolling

2020-08-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Michael Grant wrote: > I’m referring to scrolling the window by moving the elevator in > PuTTY up/down to inspect the previous output in the shell history. As far as I know this is not possible because the terminal (putty in this case) scrollback buffer is unknown to the curses terminal applicatio

RE: hardstatus and putty scrolling

2020-08-26 Thread Michael Grant
> Are you referring to "hard scrolling" ie. Scrolling the actual terminal > window? > You might want to scroll within screen by using ^a ESC, then scroll, ESC to > return to normal view. I’m referring to scrolling the window by moving the elevator in PuTTY up/down to inspect the previous outpu

Re: hardstatus and putty scrolling

2020-08-26 Thread John ORourke
Hi Michael, Are you referring to "hard scrolling" ie. Scrolling the actual terminal window? You might want to scroll within screen by using ^a ESC, then scroll, ESC to return to normal view. John On Wed, 26 Aug 2020, 21:16 Michael Grant, wrote: > I use Screen in PuTTY. I have a hard status li