Re: dump xterm scroll back buffer to file

From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_usa.net)
Date: 08/16/04 

Date: 16 Aug 2004 15:30:23 GMT

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:18:05 -0500, Harry Putnam staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
> Dances With Crows <danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@usa.net> writes:
>> Like Thomas said, xterm probably doesn't have that feature. konsole
>> does; Edit->Save History As. konsole has a lot of features that
>> xterm doesn't have, so why not just use konsole instead?
> I know how to set a massive scrollback buffer in xterm. I see no
> provision for it in konsole.

Settings->History , shirley? You can set the default size of the
history buffer to anything you want (normal value is 1000 lines, which
should be plenty), even "unlimited". I don't know what that might do to
performance though.

> Further Konsole lacks the normal unix conventions like a man page.
> Which indicates some kind of departure from unix norms.

KDE and GNOME programs don't typically *have* man pages, because they
all have a Help item in their menubars. Help->Konsole Handbook gives
you the documentation for konsole in HTML, which most people find more
congenial than a man page. YMMV, of course.

> Help at konsole --help shows nothing about setting size of history.

Because the full documentation is in the Handbook.

> Is there some reason you respond to a question with another question.
> The normal setup is Q => A. Or lacking an answer Q => ''.

You: How can I do $FOO in xterm?
Thomas: You can't.
Me: You can do $FOO in konsole. konsole does a lot of other things
that xterm can't do. Why not use konsole?

...clear now? 

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