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soolwan
soolwan

Reputation: 71

Why does tmux erase terminal contents on editor exit?

Say I'm running tmux and use "ls" to get something on the screen. Then I enter Vim to edit some file. After exiting Vim, tmux erases whatever text is above the bash prompt (not like the clear command since the prompt stays in the same place).

Is there a way to prevent this behavior? I'm using tmux 1.3 in Terminal.app on OS X.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3368

Answers (2)

Dennis Williamson
Dennis Williamson

Reputation: 359885

If your version of tmux has this option, add this line to your ~/.tmux.conf:

set-window-option -g alternate-screen on

Upvotes: 6

jps
jps

Reputation: 946

Try putting this in your .vimrc file:

set t_ti= t_te=

Upvotes: 0

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