Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - New version of the patch - with GPM handling.

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Sunday, 1 January 2023 15:13:02 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> > > $ file /lib/rc/console/font
> > > /lib/rc/console/font: Linux/i386 PC Screen Font v2 data, 256 characters,
> > > Unicode directory, 22x11
> > > 
> > > I use consolefont="ter-122n" from the terminus-font package. It's a long
> > > time since I was able to read a high-resolution screen in its native
> > > resolution.
> That's a nice font.  I could get used to it if I wasn't so attached to
> the 8x16 font.

[OT]
Yes, I like it. I'd like it even better if I could redefine the zero character 
without the central dot (which I believe is an American affectation) because 
the central dot makes the 0 resemble an 8 too closely. Instead I'd change the 
outline shape. Then Os and 0s would more resemble their usual printed and GUI 
forms. I know this wouldn't be possible on smaller sizes, but it should be 
possible at 11x22.

In fact I did try doing that once with a font editor, but it couldn't handle 
the whole font set properly. Perhaps I should look into it again.
[/OT]

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> The included patch is still imperfect.  When booting in 11x22, it doesn't
> handle the early boot messages at all well.  Also, I'm a little confused
> by what a low-level scroll function is meant to do - sometimes, scrolling
> happens when you type a CR, and want a line on the screen to be space
> filled.  Other times, you type <shift><PgUp> and don't want any space
> filling to happen.  So I'm not convinced that scrolling, invoked by, say,
> an editor program, will work correctly.
> 

Just a quick test shows it to work here. If I find anything I'll raise a flag.

Many thanks again, Alan.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.