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		derwiki on April 22, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What I Wish I Had Known About Developing C/C++ Fro... "Ctrl-a [" will put you enter the copy buffer mode and let you scroll up

thingie on April 22, 2009 [–]

Sure, but that's only a poor substitute. I can't just press shift + pg [up,down] or drag scrollbar in the terminal emulator or use mouse wheel.

terminus on April 22, 2009 | [–]

Yeah I know, Shift+PG[up, down] not being usable is kinda a bummer but as a bonus you can use / to search the scrollback buffer plus all the vi movement keys are available.

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