Re: Scrolling Back Terminal Window
Re: Scrolling Back Terminal Window
- Subject: Re: Scrolling Back Terminal Window
- From: Randall Meadows <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 09:20:59 -0400
At 10:59 AM +0200 4/6/04, Lorenzo wrote:
why doesn't my Terminal let me scroll back the window?
I asked for "man hdiutil", then I pressed Return several times to scroll
down the info (fine), but when I scrolled up to read the previous pages, I
found a white window. I tried to change some pref unsuccessfully.
How to fix this?
You have to muck about with the termcap in someway. The way I fixed
it was to change $TERM to "xterm-new". Note that you cannot do this
through the Terminal's Preferences, you have to do it at the command
line:
defaults write com.apple.Terminal TermCapString "xterm-new"
Also note that when you do this, and then open the Preferences window
in Terminal, the "Declare terminal type ($TERM) as:" popup menu shows
a blank entry; all the previous entries are still there, and
selecting one of them will again overwrite the defaults setting you
did with the above command.
I haven't noticed any other difference between the "xterm-color" and
this "xterm-new"; if you're really interested, examine the various
termcaps ("terminal capabilities") using (I think) the command-line
"terminfo".
--
randy <
http://www.not-pc.com/>
I think switching to an all-vegetarian diet only makes sense. Not for
health reasons, mind you, but for convenience, since most vegetarians
are weaker and easier to catch. --Charles Gulledge
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