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docs(cli): say that capture answers with the alternate screen
A pane running an editor or a pager answers `capture` with that program's screen, and the scrollback behind it is not in the reply. Measured: with a pane on the alternate screen the capture holds the alt-screen marker and not the main-screen one; after leaving it, the main scrollback is back and the alt content is gone, with only the echoed command left behind — which was typed on the main screen and belongs there. That is right, and it is the sort of right that reads as a bug from the outside. An agent that captures a pane mid-`less` gets a screenful and no history, and the obvious conclusion — output was lost — is wrong. So the help says which of the two you are holding, and that an empty-looking capture is usually a TUI in front of the scrollback. Also noted there: long output is trimmed from the oldest end, so a capture after a big build gives the end of it. `seq 1 200000` through a pane comes back as the last ~70 KB, ending at the prompt. Checked while here, and correct: `send` carries an 8000-character payload with nothing truncated.
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@@ -97,7 +97,20 @@ pub enum Command {
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#[command(
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about = "Print a pane's output — as text with `--plain`, otherwise with its ANSI \
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escapes intact, decoded as UTF-8 (invalid bytes become U+FFFD): the \
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newest scrollback segment by default"
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newest scrollback segment by default",
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long_about = "Print a pane's output — as text with `--plain`, otherwise with its \
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ANSI escapes intact, decoded as UTF-8 (invalid bytes become \
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U+FFFD): the newest scrollback segment by default.\n\n\
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What comes back depends on what the pane is showing. A pane running \
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a full-screen program — an editor, a pager, anything on the \
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alternate screen — answers with that program's screen, and the \
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scrollback behind it is not in the reply. Once the program exits \
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the scrollback is there again, with the alternate screen gone. So \
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an empty-looking capture from a pane that has produced plenty is \
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usually a TUI sitting in front of it, not lost output.\n\n\
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Long output is trimmed from the oldest end, so a capture after a \
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big build gives you the end of it — which is the part worth \
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reading."
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)]
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Capture(CaptureArgs),
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