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From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer2@gwdg.de>
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Subject: Re: Page-up in tcsh?
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On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Bnonn wrote:

> This is probably a really stupid question, but I can't find anything in
> the manpages. Surely there's a way to page-up in tcsh? The Page Up and
> Page Down keys do noooothing.

None of the traditional shells (like tcsh and bash) provide such a
feature. They give you a command line editor but no further screen
control.

It's more the task of the terminal emulator to do so; in xterm, for
example, you can use Shift+PageUp or Shift+PageDown to scroll.

Regards

Konrad Heuer
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