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Paging through terminal scrollback
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Description
I'm hoping to use micro as a lightweight C IDE of sorts but there is one seemingly missing feature that is preventing this for me and that is the apparent lack of the ability to page through the full output of commands run with the term command. For example, in my ~/.config/micro/bindings.json I have the line:
"Alt-x": "command:hsplit,command:term sh -c 'cd /home/dan/src/IKD/default;make'"
but when I execute that command I can only see the bottom part of the output of make, I am unable to use the Page Up and Page Down keys to scroll through the rest of the output in the terminal window.
Am I missing something or is this a feature request?
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Research direction
Start with the term command and the terminal window behavior described by the Alt-x binding in ~/.config/micro/bindings.json. Trace how command output is retained and how Page Up and Page Down are handled. Done means the terminal view can page through the full output of commands such as make, not only the bottom portion.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100