2009/4/17 Polytropon <free...@edvax.de>: > On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:55:16 +0200, Fernando Apesteguía > <fernando.apesteg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Is there a way to scroll the screen in console mode? Something like I >> do in Linux with Ctrl + Page Up? > > FreeBSD offers a better solution than Linux: It uses the key on > the keyboard that is intended to do this. > > Have a look at the ScrL (Scroll Lock) key. Have you ever asked > yourself what this key will do? Try it, press it! :-)
Believe it or not, I forgot about the key because I never had to use it before :) Thanks! > > Use the up / down and page up / page down arrow keys then. To > relapse to normal operations, press ScrL again. > > While in ScrL mode, you can still enter data, but it won't be > echoed to the terminal. You will see it after exiting ScrL > mode. > > To indicate ScrL mode, the block cursor will disappear. > > > > > > -- > Polytropon > From Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
