From: Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Suspending emacs on character terminals and "screen switching"
Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 21:06:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87abwjks3j.fsf@pacem.orebokech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.313.1178390702.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Casper Gripenberg <casper.gripenberg@kotiportti.fi> writes:
> Does anyone know what the terminal capability is that makes emacs
> switch back to the "shell screen" when you suspend emacs?
What you're seeing is called the "alternate screen", when TERM=xterm
Emacs draws its frame in the alternate screen, leaving the original
screen alone. When TERM=vt100 then Emacs uses the original screen
buffer, which (as you've noticed) makes scrollback invisible. The
corresponding termcap entries are 'ti' and 'te'.
A Google search for "xterm alternate screen" should return plenty of
relevant results.
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2007-05-05 19:06 ` Romain Francoise [this message]
2007-05-05 20:03 ` Suspending emacs on character terminals and "screen switching" Tyler Smith
2007-05-04 23:25 Casper Gripenberg
2007-05-06 6:19 ` Maciej Katafiasz
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