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Re: First Pass at mintty documentation
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:44:33 -0500
- Subject: Re: First Pass at mintty documentation
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- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:18:32PM +0000, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> @@ What "alternate screen"? @@
>
> Good question. It's vt100 lingo for a second logical screen that
> wholescreen apps such as editors normally use, often through the (n)curses
> library. (I'm taking "wholescreen" to mean an app controlling the whole
> terminal screen, as opposed to the terminal window being in fullscreen
> mode.)
>
>> = Is there an alternate screen toggle in 'mintty' as there is
>> in 'xterm'?
>
> I didn't know xterm actually had a UI for this. Do people find this useful?
The only time I've found it useful is when I find myself inadvertently in the
alternate screen and want to see the other one or vice-versa. That happens
to me maybe once a year. YMMV.
>> = How do you invoke it?
>
>You shouldn't need to really. Apps such as 'less' or 'vi' switch to it
>using the releavant vt100 incantation.
FWIW, the Cygwin console mode implements this too thanks, IIRC, to Corinna.
cgf
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