From kde-core-devel  Mon Jul 23 20:23:08 2001
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 20:23:08 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Konsole, changing history size.
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On Monday 23 July 2001 01:35 am, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> > A problem that still needs fixing before release is to stop the scrolling
> > when looking at the history. This is a bit tricky I guess, because you
> > need to take care that the part you are viewing isn't deleted underneath
> > you.
>
> Yes, quite. If you stop the scrolling, it means you're temporarily
> switching to "infinite" history. Once cvs is thawed I'll try to think of a
> way to get infinite history to work in a less user-puzzling way.

Well, either that or you just stop reading the output of the shell. Anyway, 
the current situation is a major step back from previous releases where you 
were able to look at e.g. the output of a compile while you were compiling. 
With the current code this isn't possible any more because it keeps scrolling.

Cheers,
Waldo
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