From f08afc59e9dd9a3af5d18375be644cfb0b5576cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: simon Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 16:40:11 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Charlie at work points out that the screen FAQ contains a different - and probably better - solution to the screen-vs-alt-screen issue. Reference it and describe the fix. git-svn-id: svn://svn.tartarus.org/sgt/putty@5452 cda61777-01e9-0310-a592-d414129be87e --- doc/faq.but | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/faq.but b/doc/faq.but index 8cd83391..da0e2fc4 100644 --- a/doc/faq.but +++ b/doc/faq.but @@ -904,6 +904,11 @@ screen, but it's still usually helpful to have PuTTY's scrollback continue working. The simplest solution is to go to the Features control panel and tick \q{Disable switching to alternate terminal screen}. (See \k{config-features-altscreen} for more details.) +Alternatively, you can tell \c{screen} itself not to use the +alternate screen: the +\W{http://www4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~jnweiger/screen-faq.html}{\c{screen} +FAQ} suggests adding the line \cq{termcapinfo xterm ti@:te@} to your +\cw{.screenrc} file. The reason why this only started to be a problem in 0.54 is because \c{screen} typically uses an unusual control sequence to switch to -- 2.11.0