Subject: Re: patch for wscons scrolling
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From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/13/2002 22:14:51
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On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 02:41:48PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> >>> the patch supports scrolling up/down on all wscons terminals.  You
> >>> can scroll with Shift (any shift suits) + PgUp/PgDown.
> >> Um...so does that really mean "all wscons terminals that have
> >> PgUp/PgDown keys"?
> > Yes, why shouldn't it be like that ?
>=20
> It seems rather silly to throw away one of wscons's major features -
> uniformity across multiple platforms - by making something as useful
> and conceptually portable as scrolling work only one on particular
> platform (a popular one, but still just one).  (I've never seen a
> non-peecee keyboard with PgUp/PgDown keys.)

=46rom what I have in my computer shack here:
Sparc keyboards. Secondary function in the keypad area of Amiga keyboards.
VT220 (ok, this is not WSCONS-capable). But as vt220 has them, I strongly
suspect DEC keyboards have them, too.

Regards,
	-is

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