Enable alternate scroll mode by default #17583

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opened 2026-01-31 05:46:41 +00:00 by claunia · 0 comments
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Originally created by @jaminthorns on GitHub (May 27, 2022).

I was really pleased to see that proper support for the alt screen buffer has landed in the latest preview release (thanks to https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/pull/12569). Would you consider enabling this behavior by default? I realize that you could just add a printf "\e[?1007h" to your shell startup script, but most terminals that I use have this mode enabled by default. This issue in the foot repository summarizes the issue nicely.

Originally created by @jaminthorns on GitHub (May 27, 2022). I was really pleased to see that proper support for the alt screen buffer has landed in the latest preview release (thanks to https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/pull/12569). Would you consider enabling this behavior by default? I realize that you could just add a `printf "\e[?1007h"` to your shell startup script, but most terminals that I use have this mode enabled by default. [This issue in the `foot` repository](https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/pulls/137) summarizes the issue nicely.
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