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Re:Ask HN: What terminal emulator do you use ? by barrkel on Sunday August 30, 2009 @03:24PM (#794852)
Mouse wheel / Shift+PgUp is infinitely more usable for scrollback access than Ctrl-A ESC. Ctrl-A ESC is sufficiently hard to access that it might as well not be a feature - rather than scroll up to see a command's output, I re-run it piped to less.
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Re:Ask HN: What terminal emulator do you use ? by pyre on Monday August 31, 2009 @01:17PM (#796307)
Try Ctrl-A + [ which puts you into 'copy mode' and ] to exit 'copy mode'. While in copy mode you can use arrow keys and/or page up/down to go through screen's scrollback buffer.

I usually run anything that will have a wall of text piped to less anyways (with or without screen).

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