In Gnu screen terminal emulator, when quiting from vim does not clear the screen automatically

Question

During using Gnu screen(screen manager with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation), I fall across a trouble that when I quit from the vim, screen will not clear the screen automatically.Althrough I can clear the screen manually(ctrl+l),but I really want the screen clear the sreen automatically.

Answer 1

If you want the terminal to look the same it did before you called vim that is, put the following line in your .screeenrc:

altscreen on

then when you start a new screen it should work.