A tale many years in the making…<\/p>\n
I have been lacking two things for so long, now that I can do it, I wonder if I will ever remember to use it!<\/p>\n
I use a MacBook Pro with OS X Mavericks. I log into my Linux servers with SSH. I use GNU screen to allow me to save sessions, detach, and come back later without closing running programs and what not. BUT, I can’t use the mouse scrolling for the terminal output or to scroll through files opened with Vim.<\/p>\n
I finally found the pieces missing to make this possible. All with a couple of lines of code and a new SIMBL bundle.<\/p>\n
To get the scroll working in screen, just add this line to your .screenrc<\/p>\n
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defscrollback 5000\r\ntermcapinfo * ti@:te@\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/p>\n
It’s not perfect. If you have multiple windows in a screen session, then the history buffers get all meshed together. But I usually just need to see info from a command output that is longer than the screen window, and this will let me see it. Finally! Thanks Slapitjack<\/a>! See here<\/a> for an explanation of the code.<\/p>\n
To get the scroll back in Vim, whether using screen or not. You first need to install SIMBL<\/a>. The version for Snow Leopard works with Mavericks. Then grab a copy of MouseTerm<\/a>. The installer didn’t work, but you just need to copy the MouseTerm.bundle to \/Library\/Application Support\/SIMBL\/Plugins folder (or ~\/Library\/Application Support\/SIMBL\/Plugins if needed for just your user account). Restart your Terminal and you’re good to go.<\/p>\n
Viola! Vim and scrolling, GNU screen and scrolling! Live as it was meant to be…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"