X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,MIME_BASE64_BLANKS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_RX X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Subject: RE: mintty scroll to bottom Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 11:05:01 +0100 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20120304115048.GB18852@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <20120302084105.GA14404@calimero.vinschen.de> <20120304115048.GB18852@calimero.vinschen.de> From: "Lemke, Michael SZ/HZA-ZSW" To: X-SEF-7853D99-ADF1-478E-8894-213D316B8FFA: 1 X-SEF-Processed: 7_3_0_01170__2012_03_05_11_05_02 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by delorie.com id q25A5Y5J008483 On March 04, 2012 12:51 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >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. I'd also appreciate very much implementing that option. mintty is promoted here as a replacement for rxvt but obviously lacks a functionality I've come to depend on. My use case is a terminal window in which I don't do much but where a lot of background jobs regularly produce output. A quick glance at the window tells me the current status of those jobs. Not with mintty anymore. Same with the classic use case tail -f logfile. Thanks, Michael