Re: [orca-list] Braille has the edge in Linux

[Tom Masterson <kd7cyu gmail com>]

Shift+pgup and Sift+pgdn do work in tty for scrolling past the top of the 
screen in Ubuntu anyway and most others I have worked in.  But less is a 
better option if you really need it.

Tom

On Wed, 20 May 2020, Mewtamer wrote:

> While some terminal emulators allow scrolling back in the output, as
> far as I know, if your using a tty directly, there's no way to access
> output once it scrolls off the top of the screen and whether one is
> using an actual screen, a braille display, or a text-mode screen
> reader doesn't change that fact.
>
> That said, pagers like more or less can be used to get around this
> limitation for commands with long output, as can using redirection to
> save the output to a text file instead of printing it to the screen.