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[ILUG] Stop vi clearing screen on exit

[ILUG] Stop vi clearing screen on exit

Martin Feeney martin at tuatha.org
Wed May 16 14:53:27 IST 2001


On Wed, 16 May 2001 14:47:14 Dave Neary wrote:

> Or, alternatively, you can unselect "Enable alternate screen switching"
> in the Ctrl-Button2 menu. Probably not persistent, though...

Tangential suggestion:

Use gvim instead of vi to pop up a new window leaving your old one intact.
If you don't have a graphical vi, alias vi to 'xterm -g 80x50 -e vi'.

Martin.




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