Re: repainting the screen buffer

[Michael Grant]

On 3/11/07, Michael Grant <address@hidden> wrote:
> In most modern terminal programs like Putty there is a scrollbar and
> you can scroll the window up to see previous lines in a local buffer.
>
> Screen also has a scrollback history buffer of saved lines.
>
> Is there some to way to bind a key to get Screen to output it's entire
> scrollback buffer so that it "repaints" not only the visible screen
> but also the lines above in my terminal's scrollback buffer?

I'm still looking for a way to do this.

I tried 'hardcopy -h /dev/stdout' which I thought should have worked
but it didn't.

'hardcopy -h /tmp/foo' then exec 'cat /tmp/foo' works sort of but I'm
not sure how to bind all that to a key.

There is a slight inconvenience using this method in that the file
/tmp/foo has a trailing newline so the screen scrolls up one line each
time I would redraw it.

I couldn't quite figure out how to do this with copy mode and a register.

Anyone have any better ideas?

Michael Grant