[martanne]

> Adding tmux just to get scrollback goes against Unix philosophy.

There are also simpler tools which can provide scrollback support.

The whole Unix tty subsystem goes against the "Unix philosophy", that is why it was completely scraped in Plan 9.

[snowe_]

Could you give me some reading to do? I had never heard of this before.

[martanne]

The Plan 9 manual pages and papers are probably a good starting point:

http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/

http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/