[haiku-development] Aw: Re: Terminal "clear" request - scroll or erase?
- From: "Siarzhuk Zharski" <zharik@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 15:00:25 +0100 (CET)
> Von: "Ingo Weinhold" <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
> > For example, the "top" utility uses \E[2J control sequence to clear the
> > screen before output updated list of teams information and after some
> > minutes the whole history is filled with previous versions of teams
> > information snapshots. That is looking a bit inaccurate IMO. From the
> > other side in "destructive" clear mode the "top" utility output will
> > "eat" all lines on the current screen, that can make some users nervous
> > too. What is the cleaner?
>
> On Linux (in Konsole) top first scrolls the old contents out of the
> visible area and then just periodically overwrites the visible area. I
> would expect Haiku's top to work the same way. I don't know whether it
> currently just uses the wrong control sequence(s) for that purpose or
> whether Terminal doesn't implement them as it should. ssh'ing from Linux
> to Haiku and vice versa will uncover which one it is.
I have observed that Haiku Terminal receives \E[1,1H \E[2J so that looks like
our "top" implementation issue.
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Kind Regards,
S.Zharski
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