X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 12:50:48 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: mintty scroll to bottom Message-ID: <20120304115048.GB18852@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20120302084105.GA14404@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Mar 2 20:20, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 2 March 2012 08:41, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Mar  1 20:43, Andy Koppe wrote: > >> On 29 February 2012 12:46, Lemke, Michael  SZ/HZA-ZSW wrote: > >> > What is the mintty equivalent to rxvt/xterm's > >> > > >> > -si|+si > >> >              Turn on/off scroll-to-bottom on TTY output inhibit; > >> >              resource scrollTtyOutput has opposite effect. > >> > >> There's no such option. Shift+End will get you back to the current > >> output after looking at something in the scrollback, as will any > >> keypress that sends something to the terminal. > > > > Any chance to implement this?  Automatic scroll-to-bottom is a useful > > feature, IMHO. > > I disagree. The point of being able to scroll back to earlier output > is to read and perhaps copy something. When doing that, having the > scrollback jump back to the bottom without the user asking for it is > rather unhelpful. The Windows console does this, and I always found it > really frustrating. THat's why this is an option in xterm. Every use has another idea how the terminal should behave in this regard, I guess. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple