From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths@yahoo.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: scroll back?
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:46:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <002a01c1d5c8$1186b1a0$01213e18@mycomputer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020327101442.E27820@joana.gotss.net>
Hi Kerry. Do you mean a utility such as less?
----- Original Message -----
From: Kerry Hoath <kerry@gotss.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: scroll back?
> Shift-pageup and shift-pagedown activate the scrollback
> feature in Linux but it doesn.t work with speakup
> to my knowledge.
> I use screen for this with the control-leftbracket keystroke and scroll back that way.
> To make a command show usage and page the result do this:
> ls --help 2>&1|less
> the 2>&1 redirects standard error to standard output so you can page the result
> through a pager.
>
> regards, Kerry.
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 06:33:10PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote:
> > Hi listers. I have encountered the problem of let's say you are looking at usage for a particular program. And it scrolls to the next screen. Is there a way to be able to look at the previous screen? Like does the screen or the operating system keep a temporary buffer of the previous screen until refreshed by another shell command? What I'm refering to is something similar to a scroll back buffer that I believe used to exist in Dos. Does such a thing exist under Linux? I thought I read in some howto that the keystroke for this was alt+backspace or something? Thanks!
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Igor Gueths
` Kerry Hoath
` Toby Fisher
` Igor Gueths
` Geoff Shang
` Kerry Hoath
` Igor Gueths [this message]
` Kerry Hoath
` Gregory Nowak
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