I am using a mac (snow leopard). I am a ruby on rails developer and I watched a screencast on GNU screen and am trying it out. So far I like it.
On a window when I start server I get to see the log messages. However I can't seem to scroll up. I do get a scroll bar. However when I use the scroll bar and scroll up I don't see anything.
How do people use GNU screen and scroll up?
5 Answers
There's a 'copy mode' in screen, activated by pressing, Ctrl + A, followed by [. This gives you a cursor that you can use to scroll backwards.
8Add the following to your ~/.screenrc:
termcapinfo xterm ti@:te@
termcapinfo xterm-color ti@:te@This will let you use the Terminal.app scrollbar instead of relying on screen's scrollback buffer.
5The correct way is to use the copy mode, as Babu pointed out.
You could speed things up a bit by automatically entering into copy mode when you press your favourite scroll keys.
For example, using PgUp and PgDown:
# easier scroll
bindkey "^[[5~" eval 'copy' 'stuff ^b' # PgUp | Enter copy/scrollback mode and page up
bindkey "^[[6~" eval 'copy' 'stuff ^f' # PgDown | Enter copy/scrollback mode and page downTake a look at GNU Screen: Working with the Scrollback Buffer for a good introduction.
2- I use Ctrl+A Esc to go in copy mode.
- Then use arrows or PageUp/PageDown to move through the scroll buffer.
- To exit copy mode, just hit Esc.
that’s a little more intuitive by this way.
