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From: karl@aspodata.se
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Console scrollback
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 17:39:33 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210114163933.156FB8329AAF@turkos.aspodata.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76bbd8da-1761-78f8-8fe3-3b64ed7f8224@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net>

Grant:
> On 1/13/21 2:56 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
...
> > Doing text work in X is   s l u g g i s h.  Changing from one 
> > application to another, which would be achieved by, say Alt-F4 on a 
> > console takes more key sequences in X, and is less than instantaneous.

I'm using fvwm set up with 9 virtual screens and so I can swith between
them with ctr-arrow, fast enought for me.

...
> > On an Emacs session, in three columns on a console, I can display 
> > 195 consecutive lines of a source file simultaneously.
...

I get 260x97 chars in emacs on a 1600x1280 display. With three
columns, w82,82,83chars, I get 3x95=285 lines of text.

///

Alan, how do you set up your console (I'd like to try) ?

Regards,
/Karl Hammar



  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-14 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-13 10:30 [gentoo-user] Console scrollback Peter Humphrey
2021-01-13 10:38 ` Michael
2021-01-13 10:55   ` Peter Humphrey
2021-01-13 11:21     ` Andreas Fink
2021-01-13 11:46       ` Peter Humphrey
2021-01-13 18:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-01-13 18:44   ` Neil Bothwick
2021-01-14 16:00     ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-01-13 19:14   ` Peter Humphrey
2021-01-13 19:32   ` Grant Taylor
2021-01-13 21:56     ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-01-13 22:14       ` Grant Taylor
2021-01-14 16:39         ` karl [this message]
2021-01-13 22:15       ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2021-01-13 23:01         ` Neil Bothwick
2021-01-13 23:06           ` Grant Edwards
2021-01-14  0:00             ` Grant Taylor
2021-01-14  1:25               ` Grant Edwards
2021-01-14 17:10                 ` Grant Taylor
2021-01-14  0:12             ` Neil Bothwick
2021-01-14 16:06         ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-01-16 12:01           ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-01-17  5:17             ` [gentoo-user] " Thomas Mueller
     [not found]             ` <20210117051748.E3239E0869@pigeon.gentoo.org>
2021-01-17  9:16               ` Philip Webb
     [not found]             ` <20210117051748.B8178E0863@pigeon.gentoo.org>
2021-01-19 17:09               ` Laurence Perkins
2021-01-20 19:59                 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-01-21  9:32                   ` Wols Lists
2021-01-21  8:58                     ` Jorge Almeida
2021-01-21 12:40                       ` Remco Rijnders
2021-01-21 13:00                         ` Jorge Almeida
2021-01-25 12:42                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-04-02 18:30                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-04-02 19:32                     ` karl
2021-04-02 20:49                       ` Alan Mackenzie

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