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bug #44558: Ability to redraw scrollback buffer on screen (with color)

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Submitted on:  Tue 17 Mar 2015 11:00:00 AM UTC  
 
Category: Feature RequestSeverity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - NormalStatus: Wont Fix
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: None
Open/Closed: ClosedRelease: None
Fixed Release: NonePlanned Release: None
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Thu 09 Feb 2017 02:15:01 PM UTC, comment #2:

I'm sorry, but I don't think of this as something that should be implemented.

Screen already has it's own scrollback and fact that we feed terminal scrollback always seemed to me more of side effect than something we should encourage, especially considering that we can split screen in various ways.

Amadeusz Sławiński <amade>
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Tue 17 Mar 2015 11:09:43 AM UTC, comment #1:

My apologies, I should have logged in before submitting this. This feature request was submitted by me.

Michael Grant <mgrant>
Tue 17 Mar 2015 11:00:00 AM UTC, original submission:

I would like to see a command (which I could bind to a key) to redraw the screen and the scrollback buffer. In other words, it would push the lines in the scrollback buffer back to the screen then redraw the current screen (like ^a ^l).

It is possible to scroll back up using the editing mode but it is MUCH more convenient to be able to use the scrollbar in a program such as Putty.

When the scrollback buffer is redrawn, it should preserve the color of the text.

Similarly and perhaps this should be a separate feature request, there could be an option to always redraw the scrollback buffer each time the user switched to a screen. This will cause obvious flashing on large scrollback buffers. I wonder if it is possible to get around that by either redrawing off the screen or by using the terminal's own alternate screen while redraw is taking place.

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