[mosh-users] Mac OS X Terminal does not allow scrollback

[Quentin Smith]

On Mon, 16 Apr 2012, Nathan Farrington wrote:

> I installed Mosh via Homebrew on Mac OS X 10.6.8.
> ~➤ mosh --version
> mosh 1.1.3
> Copyright 2012 Keith Winstein <mosh-devel at mit.edu>
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> 
> When I ssh to a remote Debian Linux host, I can use Terminal's scrollbar to view the scrollback, for example if ls -l has more output than a single screen of text. But this does not work on Mosh. Instead, scrolling up just shows a few blank lines. Is it possible
> to make Mosh work like ssh in terms of displaying scrollback?

Hi Nathan,

Try "View->Hide Alternate Screen" in Terminal.app after opening the 
connection.

--Quentin

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> Thanks,
> 
> Nathan Farrington
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