[Toybox] Fwd: hexedit uses VT-420 scroll ctrl sequences which dont work on tty1

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Thu Sep 26 06:49:10 PDT 2019


On 9/25/19 12:59 PM, David Seikel wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 12:24:13 -0500 Rob Landley said :
>> On 9/24/19 1:18 AM, Jarno Mäkipää wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I now tested to run hexedit in tmux: downscroll works but upscroll
>>> does not... Well we might say its tmux fault, but lots of people
>>> use tmux nowadays. And this behavior seemed to be same in
>>> framebuffer console and xterms...  
>>
>> I have a todo item to write a screen for toybox. I'll make sure this
>> works there. If you want to submit a bug report to the old one, have
>> at.
> 
> Would writing a tmux be a better option than a screen?  I prefer it for
> several reasons, the major one being that I can script reading and
> writing text to what ever command is running inside tmux (in my case
> OpenSim consoles for cron'ed backups).  Mouse support is handy to.

I started using screen on the sunos workstations at Rutgers in 1992. I've never
used tmux. This is the first I've heard they're different?

Rob




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