Re: Scrolling Back Terminal Window
Re: Scrolling Back Terminal Window
- Subject: Re: Scrolling Back Terminal Window
- From: Lorenzo <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 19:47:31 +0200
I did what you said and it worked. Thank you.
Best Regards
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Lorenzo
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From: Randall Meadows <email@hidden>
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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 09:01:54 -0400
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To: Lorenzo <email@hidden>, email@hidden
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Subject: Re: Scrolling Back Terminal Window
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At 10:59 AM +0200 4/6/04, Lorenzo wrote:
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> why doesn't my Terminal let me scroll back the window?
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> I asked for "man hdiutil", then I pressed Return several times to scroll
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> down the info (fine), but when I scrolled up to read the previous pages, I
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> found a white window. I tried to change some pref unsuccessfully.
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> How to fix this?
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You have to muck about with the termcap in someway. The way I fixed
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it was to change $TERM to "xterm-new". Note that you cannot do this
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through the Terminal's Preferences, you have to do it at the command
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line:
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defaults write com.apple.Terminal TermCapString "xterm-new"
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Also note that when you do this, and then open the Preferences window
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in Terminal, the "Declare terminal type ($TERM) as:" popup menu shows
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a blank entry; all the previous entries are still there, and
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selecting one of them will again overwrite the defaults setting you
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did with the above command.
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I haven't noticed any other difference between the "xterm-color" and
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this "xterm-new"; if you're really interested, examine the various
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termcaps ("terminal capabilities") using (I think) the command-line
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"terminfo".
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