On 9/2/06, Jeff Rush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been using Eterm for a couple of years but there is one feature I've
> wanted and never can seem to make it work when I find the time to tinker with 
> it.
>
> I'm a big fan of being able to do my work using only the keyboard, but there
> doesn't seem to be a way within Eterm to scroll back and forth in the lookback
> buffer with a keystroke.  The Eterm tech manual hints that shift-uparrow might
> do it, but that keystroke doesn't do anything.  And of course just uparrow
> cycles thru the bash shell history at the prompt, not the window's lookback
> buffer.  I'm no stranger to binding symcodes to strings and I've tried to
> utilize the escape codes for Eterm to move the cursor up/down, and then to use
> reverse index and next line.  Both of those move the cursor on the screen but
> won't scroll when it hits the border.  There doesn't seem to be an action
> keyword to scroll the buffer.  Sigh, something that seems so simple is so 
> hard...
>
> BTW, I'm revisiting this issue at this time because, using Gentoo, I just
> upgraded from Enlightenment 0.16.7.2 to 0.16.8.1 and found that my desktop
> configuration broke.  Apparently various path names changed from
> ~/.enlightenment to ~/.e16,  keybindings.cfg was renamed to bindings.cfg and
> then to e_config.bindings and the syntax therein changed from:
>
>      /*keydefs: <WINDOWS>t               => Spawn the Eterm *T*erminal */
>      __KEY t
>      __MODIFIER_KEY __WINDOWS_KEY
>      __EVENT __KEY_PRESS
>      __ACTION __A_EXEC "Eterm -t StarEnli"
>    __NEXT_ACTION
>
> to:
>
>    KeyDown    4        t exec /usr/bin/Eterm -t StarEnli
>
> I've googled for a couple of days trying to find some discussion about this
> and perhaps a migration tool, but had no luck.  I seem to be the only person
> impacted by this and therefore I'm having to re-hand-edit all the
> configuration files to get things back to the way they were.  So I thought I'd
> take another crack at the lack of a scrollback feature once more.
>
> Can anyone offer advice?

shift-page[up|down] works nicely for me.

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