[mosh-users] Thoughts on scrolling

[Scott Gifford]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Keith Winstein <keithw at mit.edu> wrote:
[ ... ]

> The plan is for the (scrolling) UI to be on the client side, but the
> scrollback is stored on the server side and demand-paged line-by-line to
> the client (which can prefetch if it wants to, and will already have most
> of the lines from when they were on the screen). When the user is scrolling
> back, we will show "missing" lines somehow distinctively (like a yellow
> blank line going across the screen) until the data are filled in by the
> server.
>
> We should be able to support the mouse wheel, etc. I'm not sure about
> PgUp, PgDown without modifiers. (We will only grab these when the inner
> terminal is not in the alternate screen.)


That sounds great!  I'd be happy to help test out any preliminary patches
or early builds.

------Scott.
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