Re: how to scrollback in terminal
In the last episode (Jan 24), Tim Judd said: Saifi Khan wrote: i'd like to scrollback on the multi page output on the terminal in FreeBSD 7.1 SHIFT key + Pg Up doesn't seem to work. Can somebody post how to scrollback in terminal ? scroll lock, and pgup After you hit scroll-lock, up/down/pgup/pgdn/home/end all work, you can copy and paste the history text with your mouse, and there's a separate history per VTY. You can also set the number of scrollback lines with the vidcontrol -n ### command. Significantly better than Linux's scrollback... -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how to scrollback in terminal
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Jan 24), Tim Judd said: Saifi Khan wrote: i'd like to scrollback on the multi page output on the terminal in FreeBSD 7.1 SHIFT key + Pg Up doesn't seem to work. Can somebody post how to scrollback in terminal ? scroll lock, and pgup After you hit scroll-lock, up/down/pgup/pgdn/home/end all work, you can copy and paste the history text with your mouse, and there's a separate history per VTY. You can also set the number of scrollback lines with the vidcontrol -n ### command. Significantly better than Linux's scrollback... -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com Thank you Tim and Dan for helping me out. The BSD model is more logical and straightforward. -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how to scrollback in terminal
Saifi Khan wrote: On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Jan 24), Tim Judd said: Saifi Khan wrote: i'd like to scrollback on the multi page output on the terminal in FreeBSD 7.1 SHIFT key + Pg Up doesn't seem to work. Can somebody post how to scrollback in terminal ? scroll lock, and pgup After you hit scroll-lock, up/down/pgup/pgdn/home/end all work, you can copy and paste the history text with your mouse, and there's a separate history per VTY. You can also set the number of scrollback lines with the vidcontrol -n ### command. Significantly better than Linux's scrollback... -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com Thank you Tim and Dan for helping me out. The BSD model is more logical and straightforward. Yes it is. As you get into BSD more, you'll find it makes more logical sense to stick with it, over Linux. Welcome to the group. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how to scrollback in terminal
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:07:59 -0600, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Jan 24), Tim Judd said: Saifi Khan wrote: i'd like to scrollback on the multi page output on the terminal in FreeBSD 7.1 SHIFT key + Pg Up doesn't seem to work. Can somebody post how to scrollback in terminal ? scroll lock, and pgup That's what Scroll Lock is for (and always has been); I'm glad that FreeBSD uses this key functionality as it has been intended, so there's not another useless key on the keyboard (such as the MICROS~1 advertising keys on modern ones)... :-) After you hit scroll-lock, up/down/pgup/pgdn/home/end all work, you can copy and paste the history text with your mouse, and there's a separate history per VTY. You can also set the number of scrollback lines with the vidcontrol -n ### command. While in Scroll Lock mode, you can even enter characters using the keyboard; they won't show up until ScrL is pressed the next time, but while entering the content of the screen (usually shifted some lines / pages up) won't alter. This can be very handy in situations where you first ScrL the screen, go up some pages, select text with the mouse, output it from the edit buffer to the command line using the middle mouse button and then un-ScrL to complete your command line and execute it. Significantly better than Linux's scrollback... Definitely. I think the Linux way of scrollback is available in xterms... -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
how to scrollback in terminal
Hi: i'd like to scrollback on the multi page output on the terminal in FreeBSD 7.1 SHIFT key + Pg Up doesn't seem to work. Can somebody post how to scrollback in terminal ? -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how to scrollback in terminal
Saifi Khan wrote: Hi: i'd like to scrollback on the multi page output on the terminal in FreeBSD 7.1 SHIFT key + Pg Up doesn't seem to work. Can somebody post how to scrollback in terminal ? scroll lock, and pgup :D there is a use after all for scroll lock. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
