From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 31 11:31: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEBD637B40C for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:30:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DBAD43F7B for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:29:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E52128DD5; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:29:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:29:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: Justin Burke Cc: FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: screen problem In-Reply-To: <20020731172959.GA38776@alt255.com> Message-ID: <20020731142650.K44895-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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