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

[Nathan Farrington]

Hi Quentin and Keith,

I believe that "View->Hide Alternate Screen" in Terminal.app is only in
Lion, not Snow Leopard. OK, I'm eagerly awaiting the next release. Great
job on Mosh!

Nathan

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Keith Winstein <keithw at mit.edu> wrote:

> Hello Nathan,
>
> We are working on adding better scrollback support and this will
> probable be in the release after 1.2 (i.e. in 1.3).
>
> For now, if quentin's solution doesn't work for you, your options
> include running screen or tmux on the server (and using their
> scrollback feature) or piping the output to a pager like "less".
>
> Best regards,
> Keith
>
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Nathan Farrington
> <farrington at cs.ucsd.edu> 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?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Nathan Farrington
> >
> >
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