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

[John Covici <covici ccs covici com>]

In a regular virtual console using speakup, shift-pgdn and up do not
work.  Am I doing something wrong?

On Wed, 20 May 2020 16:57:11 -0400,
Tom Masterson via orca-list wrote:
> 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.
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