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On 2021-01-13, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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> I think bringing up a new Gentoo system absolutely requires working in |
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> the console, certainly up to the point where X11 and a Window Manager |
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> have been installed and debugged. |
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I usually install Gentoo via ssh. |
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The article I read about the removal of Linux console's backscrolling |
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feature said it was mostly due to lack of a maintainer for that code, |
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and that if somebody stepped forward to maintain it, it could be revived. |
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FWOW, if you really want backscrolling on the console, you can get |
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that with screen, but doing so would drive me nuts, since I'd have to |
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break all my fingers to stop them from typeing ctrl-A to move the |
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start of a line. I've switched screen's meta-character a few times, |
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but everytime I try that I find my fingers already have something else |
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assigned to that control character (which I had forgotten about). It |
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would be nice if I could print out my fingers' assignment table to |
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find an unused control character, but that doesn't seem to be how it |
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works. |
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Grant |
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