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Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 09:24:28 +0000
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Subject: Re: mintty scroll to bottom
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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

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