From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 25 01:35:02 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6091C106570B for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:35:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D8018FC26 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:35:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-196-68-197.dynamic.qsc.de [92.196.68.197]) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE18C3CBC2; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:34:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id n0P1Yk3S001671; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:34:46 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:34:45 +0100 From: Polytropon To: Dan Nelson Message-Id: <20090125023445.228e1375.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20090124080755.GB63837@dan.emsphone.com> References: <9a52b1190901232301g3339fe3bi508b04ef3aef1a3e@mail.gmail.com> <497AC692.2080401@gmail.com> <20090124080755.GB63837@dan.emsphone.com> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Tim Judd , Saifi Khan , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to scrollback in terminal X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:35:03 -0000 On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:07:59 -0600, Dan Nelson 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, ...