Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 5 Nov 1996 8:57:17 -0600 | From | "Ray Van Tassle-CRV004" <> | Subject | Re: scrollback |
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> > > > > There is a real need for you to use a program called "screen". ; -) > > > > > It does exactly what you want - and much more... It's all this "much more" that I *don't* want.
> > > > > > > > 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. YES!!!!!!!!!!!
> 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. Yes. If somebody could just come up with a way to swap out/in kernel data, it would be fairly easy. Um, is there *already* a way to have kernel data swapped? -30- Ray
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