From: Kenn Humborg (kenn at domain bluetree.ie)
Date: Wed 16 May 2001 - 13:59:08 IST
> On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:41:40PM +0100 or thereabouts, David
> Murphy wrote:
> > Quoting <20010516123445.C4950 at domain bofh.irmet.ie>
> > by Conor Daly <conor.daly at domain met.ie>:
> >
> > > 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?
> >
> > It used to be a compile-time option in vim, IIRC.
>
> This guy doesn't have root on his box though so he can't
> recompile. Any way
> to set it otherwise?
Hmmm... How about this hack (works for xterms and maybe Linux
consoles):
Write a vi wrapper script that sends the save screen escape
sequence before running the real vim and sends the restore
sequence afterwards. Just like more does.
Later,
Kenn
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