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On 17.02.2017 04:11, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> In make menuconfig, under: |
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> Device Drivers → Graphics support → Console display driver support |
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> (700) Scrollback Buffer Size (in KB) |
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> I think the default was 64 but I like a big scrollback buffer. |
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> As you see I set 700 but really didn't have much of an idea what that |
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> would be in lines. |
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> Can any one offer a close guestimate what 700 kb would be in lines. |
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> That is pretty close to 1 mb isn't it?... but still what is that in |
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> lines? I'm guessing 1 MB might be around 10,000 lines. Is that even |
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> roughly close... if so I probably should have went higher. |
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Your estimate is probably pretty good: I think 'the norm line' used to |
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be 80 chars. Now, that's not really the case anymore but you won't |
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probably get an average line length over 80-100 chars (except if you |
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only compile/emerge on the terminal). There's also a variable '$COLUMNS' |
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which tells you how many columns your terminal has. |
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1 char usually needs 1 Byte (ascii/utf8), so you can store about |
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1M/100=10k lines in 1MB. Colors add some Bytes (about 4-8 Bytes per |
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color change), but I guess, the average should not exceed 100 chars/line. |
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But why don't you use tmux or the like? There you also have a scrollback |
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buffer, but you can also search and copy there, you have a terminal |
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window manager (multiplexed) with different possible layouts and |
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detached sessions, means that e.g. when you log in remotely and lose the |
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connection, you just relogin and type 'tmux attach' and you're back. |
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