Re: screen height issue

[Jim Mahood]

On Sat, 15 Mar 2014, Michael Grant wrote:

> Yes I'm aware of this.   But what would be cool is if the scrollbar could be 
> somehow linked to the scrolling in copy mode.  
>
> One thing I can imagine is just filling the of screen lines each time one 
> changes screens.   This would of course create extra flicker as lines scrolled 
> by.
>
> I have a script that does this bound to a key.
>
> It would be nice if those lines could be filled offscreen somehow.   As in 
> first the visible area was redrawn then the copy area so the user might not
> notice.

I don't think that putty's scrollbar action is going to send anything 
downstream to the session, but you could potentially detect/hook 
keystrokes or mouse usage with the right libraries.  If you already have a 
key bound to enter copy mode, why does the putty scrollbar still matter to 
you?

I can't see a lot of people wanting something like this -- it would mean 
sending a potentially-large amount of data down the wire every time you 
switch windows.