[plug] Scrollback in screen(1) ?

[James Devenish]

Hi,

In message <20030902024842.44766.qmail at web40702.mail.yahoo.com>
on Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:48:42PM +1000, Andrew Furey wrote:
> However, I've noticed that if I have (say) a "tail -f
> /var/log/syslog" screen, I can't scroll up the screen
> at all (as Shift-PgUp would do normally).

The thing I find myself doing most often is C-a [ C-u C-u etc.

> It seems to have a "scroll buffer" which by default is
> 1000 (lines?), but I'm not sure if that's what I'm
> looking for,

Yep, that's it.

> and if so, how to enable it.

Probably enabled by default. Try `info screen` for details.
I enter copy/scrollback mode using C-a [