alt Hacker NewsNot disagreeing but scrolling works just fine in vim/emacs/etc. Wouldn't it be just managing the scroll back buffer yourself rather than the terminals?
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bombela • yesterday at 5:58 PM
I think they were saying that in "cup" screen mode (CUP: CUrsor Position, activated with smcup termcap), when you exit (rmcup) the text is lost, as well as the history since it was managed by the application, not the terminal.
Their hypothesis was that maybe there was aj intention to have claude code fill the terminal history. And using potentially harzardous cursor manipulation.
In other words, readline vs ncurse.
I don't see python and ipython readline struggling as bad tho...
Yes, but this does come with differences and tradeoffs. If the terminal isn't managing the scrollback, you don't get scrollbars and you lose any smooth/high resolution scrolling. You also lose fancy terminal features like searching the scrollback, all that needs to be implemented in your application. Depending on the environment it can also wind up being quite unpleasant to use with a trackpad, sometimes skipping around wildly for small movements.