Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:29:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: Justin Burke <mlist-freebsd@alt255.com> Cc: FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re: screen problem Message-ID: <20020731142650.K44895-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <20020731172959.GA38776@alt255.com>
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On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Justin Burke wrote: > * Henning, Brian (brian.henning@navitaire.com) wrote: > > when i am using 'screen' none of the history buffer is saved. i can't scroll up and see the results of previous commands. > Screen has a built-in scrollback buffer. Using default settings, hit > CTRL-A then ESC. You can scroll the buffer using familiar Vi movement > commands. Hit ESC when you're done. You can also modify the size of the > scrollback buffer using the 'scrollback' command in your screenrc. > Justin Brian had a good point, and screen's manpage covers the scrollback key navigation pretty well but now I have two problems: The first is that after the first invocation of C-a ESC, and hitting a key with no function, such as the "u" key, screen goes out of scrollback mode and from then on my backspace key prints out tildes "~" and stops working. Second, does the command "screen -h 1000" specify screen to startup and use a scrollback "history" of 1000 num of lines? Be screenin ya, -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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