Re: Screen, xterm, initialization strings.

2008-08-11 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephane Chazelas wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 07:42:22PM -0700, Micah Cowan wrote: > [...] >> I propose that screen not send the initialization string. Probably with >> a command-line option that specifies it should be sent (though, IMO it >> shou

Re: Screen, xterm, initialization strings.

2008-08-11 Thread Stephane Chazelas
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 07:42:22PM -0700, Micah Cowan wrote: [...] > I propose that screen not send the initialization string. Probably with > a command-line option that specifies it should be sent (though, IMO it > should be sent before smkx, and not after). Any thoughts on this? [...] On the oth

Re: Screen, xterm, initialization strings.

2008-08-10 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Micah Cowan wrote: > My question is: is screen even right to issue the initialization string, > at all? And particularly _after_ issuing smkx. (Sorry, here and elsewhere, I mean smcup (termcap "ti"), not smkx.) - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musicia

Screen, xterm, initialization strings.

2008-08-10 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So, the other day, I suddenly found that screen was no longer using the alternate screen buffer as it usually does. Worse, screen _thought_ it was operating under the alternate screen buffer, so left a dirty screen upon exit. Thinking it was a recently