> Different kind of "history" (maybe the term is not proper): I am > referring to how many lines the commands you executed can output in the > terminal before the oldest lines are lost (scrolling up, you will not > reach the first command you executed after launching the terminal > emulator).
I see. I think the term is "scrollback." > There is a limit to avoid that a command that prints > gazillion lines (say a 'cat' of large files) make the process of the > terminal emulator fill up the whole main memory (to be able to show you > these lines, the terminal emulator must store them). Yes, I once set scrollback to "infinite" and learned the hard way why the default is is finite.
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