X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of andy.koppe@gmail.com designates 10.68.238.227 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.68.238.227; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of andy.koppe@gmail.com designates 10.68.238.227 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=andy.koppe@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=andy.koppe@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4F513019.8090402@cs.utoronto.ca> References: <20120302084105.GA14404@calimero.vinschen.de> <4F513019.8090402@cs.utoronto.ca> Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 09:24:28 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: mintty scroll to bottom From: Andy Koppe To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 2 March 2012 20:39, Ryan Johnson wrote: > BTW, what happens in mintty if the part of the output you're looking at > falls out of the scrollback buffer while you're looking at it? Does it start > scrolling at line rate but 5000 lines back in time? 'fraid so. Obviously, increasing the scrollback size can reduce the chances of this happening. Scrollback storage is reasonably efficient, so setting it to a million or even higher shouldn't be a problem with today's RAM sizes. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple