I want to use mouse-wheel in emacs and also scroll-back in the terminal history. When I do mosh --no-init I can scroll-back in the terminal history but I cannot use mouse wheel in the emacs. Instead if I do only mosh without --no-init flag I can use mouse-scroll in Emacs but cannot scroll back in the terminal history. I get lost in finding solution to fix this.
In mosh is it possible to scroll-back in the terminal history along with using mouse wheel in emacs, nano, less?
mosh prevents the use of scrollback #122
The root cause of not able to scroll is caused by
moshentering a "alternative screen" mode. It can be disabled using the --no-init flag (see the doc). Justalias mosh='mosh --no-init'and the problem will go away.
Developers argue that:
I don't consider using
--no-initas a way to get reliable access to a local scroll-back buffer. But please interpret this open issue as simply an acknowledgement of the request. We do not have any intention on implementing this feature
And recommended me from a issue I opened to use screen or tmux as a solution. But I was not able to make them work. Where when I use tmux inside the remote machine I experience that:
Scroll-back in the terminal history works, but it prevents me to copy some text from previois terminal history, it jumps back to current cursor spot right away.
Scroll-back does not work within
emacs, less, nanoetc.
My comment in their repsonde to mosh prevents the use of scrollback #122 labelled as This comment was marked as off-topic., which was what I mentioned in this question.
Their issue related to mosh prevents the use of scrollback #122 was open since 2012, which is around 8 years and I believe it is abandoned. If it is implemented it was implemented by now.
Contributors of mosh ignoring this issue. and saying There is hundreds of subscribers. Please think very carefully before commenting . // There was not hundreds of subscribers in the thread.
In summary, I am not having issue with --no-init, I am having issue with mosh related to mosh prevents the use of scrollback #122 , which does not support scroll back in terminal history along within tools like emacs, nano, vim, vi, less, more and so on. If a developer switching from ssh to mosh there is no way he/she can adapt the scroll behavior of mosh. Without having both together like ssh does, there is no meaning to use mosh at all.
