[gentoo-user] Re: Console scrollback

[Grant Edwards]

On 2021-01-13, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 22:15:25 -0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> FWOW, if you really want backscrolling on the console, you can get
>> that with screen, but doing so would drive me nuts, since I'd have to
>> break all my fingers to stop them from typeing ctrl-A to move the
>> start of a line.
>
> The decision to use Ctrl-A seems insane as it is such a well used key
> combination. I used to change it to Ctrl-B, but now I use tmux, which
> uses Ctrl-B by default.

Nope, ctrl-B is move-backwards-one-character. I really should try to
figure out a control-character that's not used by emacs or the tty
driver or ??? and assign that as the meta key in screen. Several times
a week while I'm screen I'll forget about ctrl-A not working and get
puzzled why my command lines are mangled.

--
Grant