Re: [ILUG] Stop vi clearing screen on exit

From: John Gaughan (jgaughan-ilug at domain irish-times.com)
Date: Wed 16 May 2001 - 15:17:24 IST

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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.

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