Re: [dev] [st] RFC halt function

From: Nick <suckless-dev_AT_njw.me.uk>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:34:58 +0100

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:15:13AM +0800, Patrick Haller wrote:
> On 2013-04-25 20:05, Christoph Lohmann wrote:
> > while trying to copy some stuff from iotop I came to the idea of having
> > some ??halt?? function in st. This is like the ??halt?? in 9term, where ev???
> > erything will stand still but the terminal is working on the output in
> > the background.
>
> Why not let tmux or screen handle that? Does st really need an
> (xon/xoff)++ feature?

I agree, we should decide whether features like scrollback, "halt",
or reflowing belong in st or not. I personally like the idea of
having them, as they're the only features I need of screen, and I
would be keen to generally not need to run it but rely on my terminal
for those functions.

But I know in the past scrollback has been rejected as "out of
scope" for st, with the recommendation of using screen or tmux.
Received on Fri Apr 26 2013 - 11:34:58 CEST