Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour
On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 05:02:36PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> Recently, Gnome terminal's scrolling behaviour has gone strange. If I am
> looking at a man page, or scrolling through a long text file with less
> etc, or even just scrolling back through terminal history using
> Shift-PgUp and Shift-PgDn, it sometimes gets "stuck" and doesn't scroll.
> Then if I repeat the keystroke to scroll, it does it twice, skipping a
> screenful. This is particularly annoying for example in Mutt, where
> scrolling too far down a message causes Mutt to move to the next
> message. I end up missing the end of the message and have to go back a
> message to read it -- and then of course Mutt takes me back to the START
> of the previous message, so I have to scroll down again, and guess what,
> sod's law, it gets stuck in the same place... Picture the scene as I get
> steadily more irritated...
I can't address the emulator's scrolling behavior in general, but in
specific to mutt, you can add:
set pager_stop = yes
to your .muttrc and that will stop the automatic flip to the next
message. A nice work-a-round until the emulator issue is resolved,
anyway.
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