Your message dated Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:15:06 -0400 with message-id <20100823221506.ga10...@invisible-island.net> and subject line re: #478293 xterm: scrollback: disable "scroll to bottom on new output" while Shift key remains depressed? has caused the Debian Bug report #478293, regarding xterm: scrollback: disable "scroll to bottom on new output" while Shift key remains depressed? to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: xterm Severity: wishlist xterm provides the facility to turn the scrollback feature "scroll to bottom on new output" on or off completely, but it would be very useful to have a third option, so that that feature is disabled while the Shift key is held down and re-enabled only when the Shift key is released. Say I am running "tail -f /var/log/syslog" in an xterm. I want "scroll to bottom on new output" enabled so that the tail "works". I then go into scrollback using Shift-PageUp in order to read some portion of the log output which has scrolled off the top. I have read half of whatever it was when suddenly there is some new syslog output and the xterm jumps back to the bottom and I lose my place. Which is really annoying. At the moment the options available are 1) put up with it 2) explicitly disable "scroll to bottom on new output" every time I use scrollback and then re-enable it afterwards 3) Ctrl-C out of "tail -f", use eg. less to examine the log file, then restart "tail -f" once I've finished It would be really useful if holding down the Shift key would disable "scroll to bottom on new output" for as long as the Shift key remains depressed, and then re-enable it when the Shift key is released. That way I could read the tailed log in scrollback without it randomly jumping out of sight, and when I'd finished reading it would revert to normal without any extra action required. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Pigeon's Nest - http://pigeonsnest.co.uk/ Lucy Pinder Television - http://www.lucy-pinder.tv/ GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7Fsignature.asc
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