Subject: Re: backscrolling on virtual consoles
To: Technolord <l.raiser@deathsdoor.com>
From: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/23/2001 12:52:22
>> Ick. That's a really un-natural position - I hope it'll be
>> easy enough to change. Every program I've ever used which allows
>> scrolling has either used shift or ctrl and page up/down.
>
>There's really nothing unnatural :) SLOCK and PGUP/DN are really close,
>and CTRL+PGUP/DN might be used for something else. I prefere the
>scroll-lock solution

*yours* might be.  mine aren't.  my laptop activates scroll-lock by me
pressing fn-f10 (which is almost two handed), and the pgup/pgdn keys
are at the right edge of the keyboard.

of course...since i don't have a *right* control key, using
crtl-pgup/pgdn is even worse.  :-/

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