Re: Bug report and whishlist

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> > This is a rather non natural behavior that must trick a quite a few
> > users.
>
> It does seem to be a recurring complaint.
> Can anyone see bad side effects if we were to
>
> 1) Give win and x11 an explicit term->flags TERM_NO_OUTFILE
>    (aquaterm? vgagl? others?)
>

pm.trm

>
> 2) Modify term_init() to check for TERM_NO_OUTFILEE, and if present
>    then *close* the output file rather than re-opening it; i.e.
>    call term_close_output() rather than term_set_output().

I would like this.

Is there any non-screen terminal that has no output file? I wonder whether
it makes sense to add flag TERM_SCREEN.

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