Charlie at work points out that the screen FAQ contains a different

- and probably better - solution to the screen-vs-alt-screen issue.
Reference it and describe the fix.

[originally from svn r5452]

diff --git a/doc/faq.but b/doc/faq.but
index 8cd83391c766cf55f941442ef783ccd576ba5408..da0e2fc4fcce716e0b7bb38487fc0fb02dc172e4 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/faq.but
+++ b/doc/faq.but
@@ -904,6 +904,11 @@ screen, but it's still usually helpful to have PuTTY's scrollback
 continue working. The simplest solution is to go to the Features
 control panel and tick \q{Disable switching to alternate terminal
 screen}. (See \k{config-features-altscreen} for more details.)
+Alternatively, you can tell \c{screen} itself not to use the
+alternate screen: the
+\W{http://www4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~jnweiger/screen-faq.html}{\c{screen}
+FAQ} suggests adding the line \cq{termcapinfo xterm ti@:te@} to your
+\cw{.screenrc} file.
 
 The reason why this only started to be a problem in 0.54 is because
 \c{screen} typically uses an unusual control sequence to switch to