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has caused the Debian Bug report #400113,
regarding please save more lines of scrollback by default
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Package: screen
Version: 4.0.3-0.2
Severity: wishlist
On machines with multiple megabytes of RAM, like 486s and Pentiums,
GNU Screen can capture massive amounts of scrollback. Yet the default
in /etc/screenrc is just 1024 lines.
IMO, 8192 or even 32768 lines would be a better setting. It would
prevent frustrating incidents of "I used the cat command on a big file
and now I lost something I needed from scrollback". Anyone who didn't
like the new setting could change it back in their screenrc.
Cheers,
Jason
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tags 400113 + wontfix
thanks
Hi,
This feature request has been open for almost 20 years without any
discussion or followup.
Screen is used on a broad variety of hardware, including
resource-constrained embedded devices.
Raising the default scrollback globally in /etc/screenrc has a real
per-window memory cost. I believe 1024 is a reasonable balance of
usability vs resources.
Increasing the scrollback is a simple change of adding a defscrollback
clause to either your system's /etc/screenrc or your ~/.screenrc.
Closing as wontfix.
Cheers,
Peter Dey
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