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bug #39390: screen could play nicer with terminal scrollbars

Submitter:  Timothy Miller <theosib>
Submitted:  Tue 02 Jul 2013 01:51:17 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Feature Request Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  * 5 - Normal Status:  None
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Open/Closed:  Open Release:  None
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Fri 04 Sep 2020 09:21:12 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Many ssh clients have a local scrollback feature (e.g. PuTTY).  Screen has no notion of this buffer and that's fine.

However, when you switch from one screen to another, PuTTY's scrollback buffer gets messy.

I would like a function which I could bind to a key to refresh window and the local scrollback buffer.

This function should clear the current screen and then simply output the contents of the scrollback buffer to the current screen.

I currently have a hack using the screen-exchange file and a shell script to do this, but it loses any colored text.

Ideally it would be great to output the color codes so the local buffer's text was again colored like it was when the commands were run.

The reason this is useful is that it's a lot easy to copypaste something that is in my local scrollback buffer than it is to use Screen's editing mode.  In fact, if I want to paste it locally, I don't know how to do that using Screen's copy/scrollback mode.

Michael Grant <mgrant>
Tue 02 Jul 2013 01:51:17 AM UTC, original submission:  

When switching screens, anything that has scrolled off the top of a window is accessible only through screen commands.  I have a habit of trying to use my local scrollbar, only to be disappointed to see whatever had scrolled off the top before I ran "screen -r".

It would be really nice to have the option to have screen dump a bunch of scrolled-off lines when switching screens so that the local terminal toolbar has mostly the expected effect.

Timothy Miller <theosib>

 

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