Is not that the same as st scrollback patch?
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 09:42:34AM +0200, Lehner Georg wrote:
>Hello,
>
>A non goal of `st` is to provide a scrollback buffer - `dvtm` or
>`tmux` is proposed for this task.
>
>Since launching several `st`s already DOES provide multiple terminals
>I couldn't see the point in using them. So I decided to rip the
>session and window stuff out of `dvtm` and only keep the scrollback
>buffer implementation.
>
>The result is `sb` the scrollback buffer utility. Get it here:
>
> https://at.magma-soft.at/darcs/sb/
> https://at.magma-soft.at/darcs/sb/sb-0.1.tar.gz
>
>I run it as follows:
>
> tabbed -c -r 2 st -w '' -t st sb
>
>This gives me a vt environment similar to my battle-scarred
>xfce4-terminal but without the steroids AND I can scroll back/forth in
>history with Shift-PgUp/Shift-PgDown.
>
>Some notes:
>
>- `sb` does NOT pretend to be a virtual terminal, and leaves the TERM
> variable alone (mostly).
>
>- `sb` features less then 2500 sloc and a 49k binary.
> `dvtm`: 4000+ slock and 55k.
>
>- `dvtm` effectively implements it's own terminal emulator, which
> comprises also most of the remnant code in `sb`.
>
>- `sb` behavior is buggy in several aspects, e.g. window redraw and
> "copy mode".
>
>Maybe someone more savvy with vt than I can help rip out everything
>that's not needed.
>
>Best Regards,
>
> Georg
>
>
Received on Tue Mar 31 2020 - 10:10:36 CEST