Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:02:42 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa?= <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Console mode scrolling Message-ID: <1bd550a00904170902p24396d18m9f50656d157ac9c5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090417175747.c9c7d444.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <1bd550a00904170755r365f0e09h5f3398aac09158c3@mail.gmail.com> <20090417175747.c9c7d444.freebsd@edvax.de>
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2009/4/17 Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>: > On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:55:16 +0200, Fernando Apestegu=EDa <fernando.apest= eguia@gmail.com> wrote: >> Is there a way to scroll the screen in console mode? Something like I >> do in Linux with Ctrl + Page Up? > > FreeBSD offers a better solution than Linux: It uses the key on > the keyboard that is intended to do this. > > Have a look at the ScrL (Scroll Lock) key. Have you ever asked > yourself what this key will do? Try it, press it! :-) Believe it or not, I forgot about the key because I never had to use it before :) Thanks! > > Use the up / down and page up / page down arrow keys then. To > relapse to normal operations, press ScrL again. > > While in ScrL mode, you can still enter data, but it won't be > echoed to the terminal. You will see it after exiting ScrL > mode. > > To indicate ScrL mode, the block cursor will disappear. > > > > > > -- > Polytropon > From Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... >
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