Alternate screen doesn't clear the terminal when running in GNU Screen about bubbletea HOT 2 CLOSED

Aha! Adding altscreen on to my .screenrc seems like a fine workaround -- I'm surprised it's off by default.

(I'm also surprised I've been using screen for ~20 years with this fairly standard terminal feature turned off 😮 )

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Thanks for this! I can replicate the behavior, though it's a bit of an interesting case here:

The alternate screen buffer is disabled by default in GNU Screen. To enable it you can press screen’s escape key (ctrl+a by default) and enter :altscreen on. After that the altscreen in Bubble Tea will behave as expected.

That said, we shouldn't be printing over existing text in the terminal like in the screenshot above. To fix this, Bubble Tea should clear the screen after the altscreen initializes, even if it doesn't initialize. For comparison, Vim, which also usually operates in an altscreen, does this.

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