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Scrolling in the Alternate Screen Buffer should send up/down keystrokes? #3321

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Scrolling in the Alternate Screen Buffer should send up/down keystrokes?#3321
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Area-InputRelated to input processing (key presses, mouse, etc.)Area-TerminalControlIssues pertaining to the terminal control (input, selection, keybindings, mouse interaction, etc.)Area-VTVirtual Terminal sequence supportIssue-TaskIt's a feature request, but it doesn't really need a major design.Priority-2A description (P2)Product-TerminalThe new Windows Terminal.Resolution-Fix-CommittedFix is checked in, but it might be 3-4 weeks until a release.
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Terminal v1.14
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opened on Oct 25, 2019

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Many terminals will set different scrolling behavior within the Alternate Screen Buffer such that scrolling will send up/down key strokes. This seems to make more sense than scrolling through the main buffer's history.
xterm has this as an option (set by the 'alternatescroll' Xresource), VTE based terminals have this set as default behavior.
Please consider adding this capability to Windows Terminal.

Depends on #381.

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    Area-InputRelated to input processing (key presses, mouse, etc.)Area-TerminalControlIssues pertaining to the terminal control (input, selection, keybindings, mouse interaction, etc.)Area-VTVirtual Terminal sequence supportIssue-TaskIt's a feature request, but it doesn't really need a major design.Priority-2A description (P2)Product-TerminalThe new Windows Terminal.Resolution-Fix-CommittedFix is checked in, but it might be 3-4 weeks until a release.

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