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

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Thu, 22 May 2025, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:

> I read you Nicolas when you said 63 virtual consoles is a lot and I
> admit that in practice I never find myself out of consoles, actuallyfar
> from that, btu I also tend to assume thtat thememory quantities we are
> talking about are not that big so why not have that alternate screen
> content implemented in the individual consoles, rather than stealing
> another one and basically dividing the number of available consoles by
> two?

It's a question of implementation. Everything is already in place for VT 
switching. So this might be the easiest path. And I'd grab a free VT 
on-demand meaning this wouldn't divide the actual number of available 
VTs by two.


Nicolas