Re: Varying behaviour when exiting vim depending on filetype (perhaps)

Am 10/27/17 um 19:15 schrieb David Woodfall:
> … sometimes when I exit I am still at the top of the terminal. Other
> times vim drops me at the bottom.
> … My $TERM is screen-256color-bce … setting the term variable …
> … doesn't seem to make any difference.

I fear, this is really complex. The 'pty' (pseudo tty, abstract
terminal the window works with) 'sits' between shell+vim and the
program which shows the characters onscreen. In the special case
of using 'screen', you even have TWO ptys stacked (one for your
'display' where you look on 'screen' PLUS one inside 'screen'
on which the shell+vim work. This makes the switching possible).
So each of the two steps reacts on the TERM codes and is assumed
to do exactly the same things.
Now the 'screen' has TWO scrollbacks to enable exactly what
you want, one for keeping the screen the shell works on with
the position and command line, the other for running programs
(e.g. vim) with random cursor movement on.
When vim starts, it (normally) switches to the second screen,
on ending it switches back.
BUT, if by any means, this switched state is switched back
by something else while vim runs (other programs running in
background, hitting ^Z to suspend vim, or running interactive
programs from inside vim), THEN the state of the normal
(command line) scrollback changes 'behind' vim and you drop
to a surprisingly different screen by ending vim. Having so
many possibilities makes it really hard to find each single
cause of unwanted changes.
The seeming dependence on filetype might stem from the
set of programs you (or vim) use to work with that filetype.
Even more complex are cases of remote 'screen' (may be even
on a local 'screen') possibly calling on a xterm:
$ screen ssh -t SOME_HOST screen
here you get even more ptys and the remote connection in
between and you local window in xterm. Each should do/show
the same, but each level can get out of whack and loose
the position your terminal falls back to at the end of vim.
All this did not mention the problem, which begins if
different ptys/terminal-programs run on different $TERMs.
The program 'screen' maps the $TERMinal of your window
(or display) to its own terminal type 'screen-...-bce'
(so if you work with an 'xterm' or 'gnome-terminal',
screen remaps the terminfo codes, then runs screens with
TERM='screen-....' inside.
NOW this adds the differences in TERMinal definitions into
the problem's complexity ;-)

Working ~30 years with vi(m), and 'screen' since it exists,
I saw SO many strange 'messups', that after a while I simply
begun to ignore it as long as it does not hinder me from
working ...

Stucki

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