From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D29AF1382C5 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2021 19:32:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 658FDE0964; Wed, 13 Jan 2021 19:32:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net (tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net [IPv6:2600:3c00:e000:1e9::8849]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0F18AE0930 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2021 19:32:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Contact-TNet-Consulting-Abuse-for-assistance by tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net (8.15.2/8.15.2/Debian-3) with ESMTPSA id 10DJW6aU028215 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2021 13:32:07 -0600 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Console scrollback To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <2189375.ElGaqSPkdT@peak> From: Grant Taylor Organization: TNet Consulting Message-ID: Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2021 12:32:28 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.6.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6ec35379-8543-44dc-9617-dd882dcb324a X-Archives-Hash: db4eda1eb383d9d68c3b9a3b87839bab On 1/13/21 11:14 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > This is appalling. I do all my work on the console (apart from web > browsing), and with this development, Linux effectively becomes > unusable to me. I will NOT be bullied into using second rate > alternatives like X-Windows terminals. Wow. I don't think I've run into someone that was a devout {physical,virtual} /console/ user in quite a while. I'm curious what you do in the Linux console that can't be done in a terminal emulator. I know that there is a lot of difference in different terminal emulators. -- I *strongly* prefer XTerm as it does things that other terminal emulators have never heard of. Please share if you do things that /can/ be done in the Linux console that /can't/ be done in a terminal emulator. If it's just preference, then hat's off to you. -- Grant. . . . unix || die