Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 4 Nov 1996 18:57:23 -0500 (EST) | From | Kevin M Bealer <> | Subject | Re: scrollback |
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On Sun, 27 Oct 1996 potato@dsnet.com wrote:
> Screen does indeed support colors... I dhad a .screenrc file that allowed > full color... but after drive crashed, i lost it... > > -Rob > > On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Tam Ho wrote: > > > I suppose this is off-topic, but screen does support ANSI colors (has > > been for a while now). > > > > On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Egor Egorov wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > > > > > > > There is a real need of separate scrollback for each console. > > > > There is a real need for you to use a program called "screen". ;-) > > > > It does exactly what you want - and much more... > > > > > > Nope, screen does not permit colors. :( > > > > > > > -- George, Lord Halifax
I have to disagree with the screen argument.
For most of our purposes, the VT or VC works fine for everyone, except that most people (that have an opinion) would like a slightly more persistant scroll back buffer.
It's just annoying to me that we do *almost* the right thing now. There should be no need to have the kernel do 97% and another program that does that 97%, plus another 2% and requires new keystrokes to learn, uses a different terminal type ....
Changing between "screen" and VT's is annoying because it is so close to the human mental hardware. Like learning Dvorak keyboard -- not worth it if you can only use it half the time.
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