[gnome-terminal] help: unstub pref-scrolling.page



commit fbde0d2a832cb9d4a6aad82f73197a9c39ba191a
Author: Sindhu S <sindhus live in>
Date:   Fri Feb 8 16:18:29 2013 +0530

    help: unstub pref-scrolling.page
    
    Added help on the feature "Scroll on keystroke".
    
    Explanation about scroll on keystroke now includes that only
    keys that can be taken as input allow Terminal to scroll
    down from any location to the last prompt.

 help/C/pref-scrolling.page      |   46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 help/C/pref-scrolling.page.stub |   22 ------------------
 2 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/help/C/pref-scrolling.page b/help/C/pref-scrolling.page
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7722600
--- /dev/null
+++ b/help/C/pref-scrolling.page
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/";
+      type="guide"
+      id="pref-scrolling">
+
+  <info>
+    <revision version="0.1" date="2013-01-09" status="draft"/>
+    <link type="guide" xref="index#preferences"/>
+
+    <credit type="author copyright">
+      <name>Sindhu S</name>
+      <email>sindhus live in</email>
+      <years>2013</years>
+    </credit>
+
+    <desc>Set scroll output and scrollbar behaviour</desc>
+  </info>
+
+  <title>Scrollbar preferences</title>
+
+  <terms>
+    <item>
+      <title>Scrollbar visibility can be set to any of the three options...</title>
+        <list>
+          <item><p><gui style="menuitem">Always visible</gui>: Scrollbar is visible at all times.</p></item>
+          <item><p><gui style="menuitem">Visible only when necessary</gui>: Scrollbar is visible only when 
terminal output exceeds the length of <app>Terminal</app> window size.</p></item>
+          <item><p><gui style="menuitem">Hidden</gui>: Scrollbar is always hidden from view.</p></item>
+        </list>
+      <p>To set scrollbar visibility in <app>Terminal</app> go to <guiseq><gui style="menu">Edit</gui><gui 
style="menuitem">Profile Preferences</gui><gui style="tab">Scrolling</gui></guiseq> and select the desired 
visibility state from <gui>Scrollbar is</gui> menu.</p>
+    </item>
+    <item>
+      <title><gui>Scrollback</gui> lines</title>
+      <p><gui>Scrollback</gui> lines indicate the number of <app>Terminal</app> output lines stored in 
memory for scrolling. The default number of scrollback lines is <input>8192</input>. To change this, click on 
<gui style="button">+</gui> to increase and <gui style="button">-</gui> to decrease lines. You can also 
manually input a number greater than 0 to set scrollback lines.</p>
+      <p>To have unlimited scrollback lines, select <gui style="checkbox">Unlimited</gui> as your option.</p>
+    </item>
+    <item>
+      <title><gui style="checkbox">Scroll on output</gui></title>
+        <p><app>Terminal</app> can automatically scroll down to the latest output as a command or program 
executes. To enable this, select <gui style="checkbox">Scroll on output</gui>.</p>
+    </item>
+    <item>
+      <title>Scroll on keystroke</title>
+        <p><gui style="checkbox">Scroll on keystroke</gui>, when enabled allows
+        the <app>Terminal</app> to scroll down to prompt, on press of any key that can be an input to 
prompt, such as an alphabet, numbers, tab key etc.</p>
+      </item>
+  </terms>
+
+</page>


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