On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 08:36:46AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The current scrolling interface to GNU Screen is not particularly > simple to use, and neither so to understand. The reason is that this > mode is mainly designed to move around text, and not scroll the > window, which is just a side effect.
I agree. > Would a patch integrating easier scrolling, say, by the Linux-style > SHIFT+PG??, be welcome? Especially if the keyboard actions are not hard-coded. As a touch typist .. having to reach for the PgUp/PgDn keys would make your enhancement basically unusable. My preference would be for half-page scrolling via Ctrl-U and Ctrl-D (same as in vim) and good mnemonics as any. When reading text or log files, the output of shell commands .. etc. I find that half-page scrolling is a good compromise because it combines moving the display a sizeable chunk at a time with minimal effort .. while still providing context: When I started, I initially paged one page at a time but then I realized that I would frequently have to page back to the previous "view" because whatever I saw after paging down (or up) made me want to double-check on what was on the previous/next page. Ibid. when I'm reading a web page and I need to back up a bit to re-read the beginning of a sentence of paragraph. With half-page scrolling I find that more often than not there is enough context on the new display to ensure that I don't have to page back to where I was. HTH Thanks, cga _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
