Can't: Ctrl + Page Up (MC12 32/64 bits)

[Santos]

Hello

Micro Core Tc 12 x86/x86_64

Most of the time I use plain  MC  and is just awesome. However if the output of something is too long or if I want to check on the previous  tty  history I just can't. Ctrl + Page Up doesn't work.

I can pipe the output of whatever program to a file (because some programs/scripts don't like stdout) or pipe it to  less  and check on the output, but is not the same.

Is this an error or did something changed on the  tty?

[Rich]

Hi Santos
Have you tried  Shift + Page Up ?

[curaga]

Recent kernels removed that support, but I don't remember which version exactly, not sure if it was in the 12.x kernel.

[Santos]

@Rich

Haha, my mistake. I meant Shift + Page Up. Yes I tried it, does not work.

@Curaga

Yes it started with Tc 12.

From a regular-user-stand-point. Does that mean there is no way to have it back?

[curaga]

Yes, no way to have it back. You'd have to use some userspace terminal emulator that runs on the FB, or screen/other such apps. Or use X terminals.

[Santos]

Oh! So sad.

Anyway, thank you for answering.

[lhaley42]

Wow - I was wondering about this too - googling yields:

Linux 5.9 Dropping Soft Scrollback Support From FB + VGA Console Code
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.9-Drops-Soft-Scrollback

[PDP-8]

One solution would be to run FreeBSD, and install BusyBox as your user shell and applications.

I see that BusyBox has paid attention to FreeBSD use cases recently, so maybe that would be a solution, unless purity of licensing an issue.

(Which shouldn't be an issue since for DECADES, gcc was the compiler use(d) for all the later *bsd's in the first place!) Look at the cross-pollination in NomadBSD for quickie desktop ...

[PDP-8]

Gulp - spoke too soon.  Sorry Santos, this doesn't seem to be working in this either

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FreeBSD NomadBSD 13.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE #0: Tue May  4 21:43:29 UTC 2021     root@NomadBSD:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/NOMADBSD  amd64
Bummer.  Looks like it's curtains, or pagers like less for us now.

[Santos]

@PDP-8

Thank you for looking into that. I've been messing around with NetBSD recently but switching just for buffer scrolling is a little bit overkill for me. Plus, yes, I would rather stay as close as GNU as possible (but that seems more like a liability nowadays). And, NetBSD keeps crashing on my computer... too bad!