[lug] screen and shit + pgup

[Jason Davis]

On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 10:21, Zan Lynx wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 10:15 -0700, Jason Davis wrote:
> > Hello,
> >  I have always used shit + pgup to view stuff that scrolled past in 
> > gnome-terminal. I now use screen a lot , and shift + pgup does not work
> > with gnome-terminal (works fine with xterm). Has anyone had this same
> > problem... and fixed/worked-around it?
> 
> Screen has its own way to do this.  Press ctrl-a, Escape to go into
> history review/copy mode.  Pressing Escape again gets you out of it.
> While in review mode, ctrl-b moves one screen back, ctrl-f moves
> forward.  See screen man pages for more info.
> 
> I put this line in my $HOME/.screenrc file:
> defscrollback 10000
> 
> That gives me plenty of history.  I think the regular default is only
> 100 lines.


Thanks for the tips :)
jd