Hello, Grant. On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 22:15:25 -0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2021-01-13, Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote:
> > I think bringing up a new Gentoo system absolutely requires working in > > the console, certainly up to the point where X11 and a Window Manager > > have been installed and debugged. > I usually install Gentoo via ssh. > The article I read about the removal of Linux console's backscrolling > feature said it was mostly due to lack of a maintainer for that code, > and that if somebody stepped forward to maintain it, it could be revived. I'm doing my best to step forward, but I suspect that will be almost as difficult as fixing the bugs in it. ;-) I'm disappointed that the decision to cut out this important feature was taken without any serious attempt to find a maintainer. I have the impression (though I may be wrong), that the problem was talked about on the linux kernel mailing list, but nobody there took it upon himself to post on any of the more hard-core distributions' mailing lists, such as gentoo's. > FWOW, if you really want backscrolling on the console, you can get > that with screen, but doing so would drive me nuts, since I'd have to > break all my fingers to stop them from typeing ctrl-A to move the > start of a line. I've switched screen's meta-character a few times, > but everytime I try that I find my fingers already have something else > assigned to that control character (which I had forgotten about). It > would be nice if I could print out my fingers' assignment table to > find an unused control character, but that doesn't seem to be how it > works. Can one set up a "basic" screen which doesn't use a meta-character? > -- > Grant -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
