Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:57:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Bertram Scharpf <lists@bertram-scharpf.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Switch to alternate screen buffer Message-ID: <20080724165727.O3416@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20080724133631.GA31077@marge.bs.l> References: <20080724133631.GA31077@marge.bs.l>
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> In a terminal window I oftenly pipe some progams output to vim or to > less: > > $ someprg | vim - > > When the program fails and outputs an error message to stderr this will > be overwritten by Vim. > > I know from some old Linux installations that Less and Vim are able to > switch to an alternate screen buffer. They use the escape sequences > "\e[?1049h" and "\e[?1049l" to switch back respectively. > > How can I activate this in FreeBSD? no idea but do someprg 2>&1|vim -
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