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[ILUG] Stop vi clearing screen on exit

[ILUG] Stop vi clearing screen on exit

John Gaughan jgaughan-ilug at irish-times.com
Wed May 16 15:17:24 IST 2001


On Wed, 16 May 2001, Conor Daly wrote:
> A colleague is complaining that when he exits vi(m), it clears the screen so
> he can't see what he was viewing.  What can he set in his .exrc to prevent
> that?

There are a couple solutions to this in the tips section of the vim
manual.  Doing ':help xterm-save-screen' in vim should bring it up.

John.

-- 
John Gaughan, Systems Administrator
Irish Times New Media - http://www.ireland.com/




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