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Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by pyre on Monday September 28, 2009 @08:02PM (#849499)
Well, I always just used C-a [ to get into copy mode. Another thing to consider is that once you are in copy mode you don't have to hit or continue to hold down the shift key along with PgUp/PgDn.

I personally don't find that to be an annoyance, though. Especially not when stacked up against all of the other benefits you get from using screen.

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Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by barrkel on Monday September 28, 2009 @08:28PM (#849536)
I understand. The primary benefits of screen to me is disconnect / reconnect, and as such it's useful for servers, but local terminals, not so much.

The other advantage of "rich" support is mousewheel combined with selection: with Cygwin rxvt, I can scroll up, begin a selection with the mouse, and scroll down with the mouse wheel and thereby copy multiple pages of scrollback buffer into the Windows clipboard, ready for e.g. paste in to blog article.

The advantage of keyboard-free casual scrollback when I'm writing such articles, checking what I did earlier, is something you learn to take for granted, and is quite obviously missing with screen.

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