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. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
