Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Mar 1996 11:08:35 GMT | From | Simon Tatham <> | Subject | Re: scrollback and VT switching |
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harlan@mymenus.com wrote: >1. Persisting scrollback on the VTs across VT switching would be a >good thing. > >2. Being able to clear the scrollback is also good; I write a love- >letter, I want to clear the scrollback when I log off (or when someone >otherwise sits down, perhaps to use a different VT).
I agree. In fact I find it handy to be able to clear scrollback just by switching VTs, rather than having to do an "echo -e" or anything else arcane... but that's just me.
While we're discussing scrollback, another (trivial) thing I'd find useful would be some way to shunt the entire screen of a console into scrollback: essentially I want to scroll the screen up by N lines, where N is the size of the screen... but I want to do this in dumb text files like /etc/issue, rather than having to invoke a shell script or anything. Maybe I'll do a patch for that, if anyone else but me would find it useful.
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