Re: screen buffer in -current

[Jean-Yves Burlett <jean-yves_(_at_)_burlett_(_dot_)_org>]

On Tuesday 28 January 2003 06:20, David Norman wrote:
> Since the machine I'm complaining about has 1.25GB of memory, I'm not
> worried about a few lines of text taking up kernel memory for a screen
> buffer, nor would I be worried about a few kb taking up some kernel
> memory on my 486. Being able to do a `ls` for a large directory and
> switch between consoles without loosing the `ls` contents is worth it.

You can simply use screen ($PORTS/misc/screen) to do that. And you will gain 
the extra ability to copy/paste between vterminals.

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