[BRLTTY] Was: Re: Linux console hacking > scroll back buffer

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Aura Kelloniemi on 2025/05/22 at 21:54 +0300]

>When a full-screen program, (like less, emacs or vim) starts, it activates the alternate screen. It then draws its interface to this display buffer. Once the program exits (or suspends), it returns the main screen, thereby also restoring the terminal contents to the exact same point where they were before the program started.

This isn't my experience. I logged into a new session in order to get screen out of the picture. Then I tried running vim and less. In either case, when I exited I was on a shell command prompt with the app's (vim or less) final output just above it.

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