Re: Eterm Scrollback in Screen

Thus spake Adam Lazur:
> A. S. Budden ([email protected]) said:
> > Forgive me if this is an Eterm question and not a screen question,
> > wasn't sure which was the better place to ask.  I almost exclusively use
> > a large Eterm window with screen running inside.
> > 
> > Before I run screen, I have a nice big scroll-back buffer that I can use
> > with my wheel mouse to go and see the bits of output that have gone off
> > the top of the screen, without using a pager like less.  However, once
> > I've started screen, this scroll-back facility is no longer available --
> > if I scroll up, I see whatever was off the top of the display BEFORE I
> > ran screen, and not whatever had scrolled off the top inside the screen
> > session.
> > 
> > Is there a way around this problem?
> 
> # To get screen to add lines to xterm's scrollback buffer, uncomment the
> # following termcapinfo line which tells xterm to use the normal screen buffer
> # (which has scrollback), not the alternate screen buffer.
> #
> #termcapinfo xterm ti@:te@
> 
> You'd probably want termcapinfo Eterm ti@:te@

As it happens, putting termcapinfo xterm ti@:te@ into my ~/.screenrc
seems to have done the trick (with Eterm it doesn't work).  Very
strange, given that it worked with xterm before I did it, just not with
Eterm.

Ah well, works now.

Thanks for your help,

Al

 

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