On 08/04/06 11am, Bob Miller wrote:
> Ralph Zeller wrote:
> 
> > On 08/04/06 07am, Bob Miller wrote:
> > > The problem with screen is that it's painful to scroll back.
> > 
> > Yeah, it's hard to remember "Control-A, escape".
> 
> Okay, okay.  "Painful" is too strong a word.  But it's nonintuitive
> that C-A ESC puts you into "copy mode", then C-U and C-D move by half
> screens, then typing any character not recognized in copy mode will
> scroll to the bottom and exit copy mode.
> 
> Compare that to a naked terminal window's scroll bar along with SHIFT
> PAGEUP and SHIFT PAGEDOWN.

It's just Control-A, escape, then you can use pageup, pagedown, & up and
down arrows.  I agree it's nonintuitive, a mouse & GUI is easier to
figure out.
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