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Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 11:54:50 -0500 (Central Daylight Time)
From: Michael Hoffman <grouse AT mail DOT utexas DOT edu>
Subject: Re: Console issue
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On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Stephen C. Biggs wrote:

> I fire up a console, and hit enter a whole bunch of times so that the
> scroll bar moves a bit down.
>
> Then I go into vi on a big text file and while in vi, tap above the
> scroll thumb a few times to page up in the console.  Then I do :q and
> when I start hitting enter again, the contents of what was in vi is still
> present in the screen buffer.

Use rxvt. Also, ^L will redraw the screen in vi and some other
termcap-using programs.
-- 
Michael Hoffman <grouse AT mail DOT utexas DOT edu>
The University of Texas at Austin


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