Terminal window scroll bars?
ChristopherFaylor
cgf@cygnus.com
Fri Sep 18 17:10:00 GMT 1998
In article <199809171838.OAA02433.cygnus.gnu-win32@scotch.mae.cornell.edu>,
Daniel Karipides <karipid@scotch.mae.cornell.edu> wrote:
>
>>>My favorite telnet clients all have scroll bars that allow you to look back
>>>more than 24 lines. Can bash do the same?
>>
>>It can on Windows NT's cmd.exe, but not with Windows 9.x's command.com !
>>
>>On NT you can set it through the system menue properites of your cmdwindow.
>
>However, if you enable this, then less no longer works. (When you leave less
>you are at the top of your "buffer" and must hit return many times to
>scroll through it.) Or at least, this is what happens to me.
I guess it depends on the less you're using. I have a Win32 native version
and a cygwin version and both work correctly.
There was a problem in B18 with this, but it was fixed (by me) for B19.
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