[BRLTTY] Was: Re: Linux console hacking > scroll back buffer

[Aura Kelloniemi]

Hi,

On 2025-05-22 at 18:59 +0200, Didier Spaier <didier at slint.fr> wrote:
 > Salut Nicolas,
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 > Maybe your technical and communication skills could help the scroll back buffer
 > of Linux virtual terminals (or consoles) to make a come back?

It was quite broken when it existed. For example if the user switched to
another console, scrollback was permanently lost, because the buffer was not
console-local. Also when new text was written to the terminal, the console
went immediately out of the scrollback review state which made it impossible
to scroll back in consoles that received output.

But implementing alternate screen and scrollback buffer might have some
synergy, because both features require extra buffer for containing screen
contents.

I nowadays run tmux always in console, so I have excellent per-window
scrollback buffers with configurable buffer size.

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Aura