🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: comp.sys.sun
Article #13334

Re: Can a SunView window scroll without editing?

#13334
From: anthony zador
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1989 15:35
12 lines
1109 bytes
In article <3785@brazos.Rice.edu> jes@mbio.med.upenn.edu (Joe Smith) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 217, message 8 of 23
>
>Why do I have to choose totally dumb windows (shelltool) or windows that
>are full text editors (cmdtool)?  Of course when editing is disabled in a
>cmdtool, you lose the scrollback.
>

I have a related question. I use tcsh, which allows one to review recent
commands using the up-arrow (a nice feature copied from VMS, i guess).
This feature is somehow disabled in any suntool window with a scroll bar,
eg a cmdtool.  It works in X windows with scroolbars.
Technical Details
Message-ID: <4009@brazos.Rice.edu>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request
From: zador-anthony@yale.edu (anthony zador)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Can a SunView window scroll without editing?
Keywords: Windows
Message-ID: <4009@brazos.Rice.edu>
Date: 20 Dec 89 15:35:01 GMT
Sender: root@rice.edu
Organization: Sun-Spots
Lines: 12
Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu
X-Refs:  Original: v8n217
X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 229, message 2 of 16