[Gllug] Killing the client but leaving the process running

Pete Ryland pdr at createservices.com
Fri Mar 5 13:33:57 UTC 2004


On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 12:37:48PM -0000, Andrew Roberts wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 18:19:11 +0000, Pete Ryland <pdr at createservices.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> >Indeed, lots of nice features.  The only issue I have with screen is that
> >the scroll-back buffer is too fiddly to use.  And this from a vi user! 
> >:-)
> 
> It's not that bad :). Ctrl-A [ to start, then navigate with arrow keys, 
> vim keys, PgUp, PgDn etc. You can even search the buffer using /.

To me, that's fiddly compared to SHIFT-PgUp. :-)  The most-often-used case
is to see just the previous page.  CTRL-a ESC CTRL-u ESC is quite a sequence
compared.

Pete
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