Re: No scrolling for long input lines

2008-11-09 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 12:40:46PM -0500, Andy Goth wrote: > (I said I would research this some more, but I haven't had a chance, and I > won't get one for a couple days, so rather than wait, I am simply posting > what I know.) > > In GRUB 1.96, typing an input line longer than the screen is wid

Re: No scrolling for long input lines

2008-11-01 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 07:40:38PM +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > grub_console_real_putchar there is quite good comment about what are > BIOS limitations. > > Choices are to modify this code here, or make better bios console terminal. Would vga_text.c solve the problem? VGA text is alwats gar

Re: No scrolling for long input lines

2008-10-08 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Andy Goth wrote: > "Andy Goth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'll test the current SVN this Friday, or perhaps Thursday night at >> the earliest. > > Actually I did spend time tonight investigating. I needed to get the latest > SVN for another reason (about which I have questions I'll ask in a f

Re: No scrolling for long input lines

2008-10-07 Thread Andy Goth
"Andy Goth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll test the current SVN this Friday, or perhaps Thursday night at > the earliest. Actually I did spend time tonight investigating. I needed to get the latest SVN for another reason (about which I have questions I'll ask in a few days), so I went ahead

Re: No scrolling for long input lines

2008-10-07 Thread Andy Goth
Felix Zielcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it would be always better if you check with the current SVN version things > that you want to report if they still apply. ___ I'll test the current SVN this Friday, or perhaps Thursday night at the earliest. Until then I'm on international busine

Re: No scrolling for long input lines

2008-10-07 Thread Felix Zielcke
-- From: "Andy Goth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 7:40 PM To: Subject: No scrolling for long input lines I haven't made any modifications to the source, and I'm using the 1.96 release I found on alpha.gnu.org. I have the b