From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 13:53:33 -0600 Message-ID: From: andrey mirtchovski To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] nile, a rio derivative Topicbox-Message-UUID: 86ddd7d8-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 nice! i've been thinking in the past that the scroll dichotomy (some like noscroll and some don't) can be solved similarly to OSX's terminal -- if you're at the bottom of the page it scrolls down, if you're anywhere else it does not. the last line of text (the line with the prompt, or an empty line) at the bottom of the window is normally not visible, so to switch from noscroll mode to scroll mode you go to the bottom of the page and hit page-down/arrow down once more to "show" the last line and enable "scroll" mode. page-up or up-arrow once will act normally but have the secondary effect that noscroll is enabled. i've found it useful in terminal, but i've always been a no-noscroll kind of guy :)