Re: [PATCH v7 0/3] console: Add persistent scrollback buffers for all VGA consoles

Manuel Schölling
2016-11-28T21:28:19Z

Hi Andrey,

Adam already discussed some of your notes, but I want to catch up one
this one:

On So, 2016-11-27 at 21:37 +0000, Andrey Utkin wrote:
> I see the user experience is subpar to what I'm accustomed to (I use
> Konsole and "Clear Scrollback and Reset" action, default shortcut is
> Ctrl+Shift+K). The strange behaviour moments have nothing to do with
> current patchset but are properties of vgacon, though. (I compared it
> with another PC which runs without this patchset, and it looks like it
> runs vgacon, too, however, I'm not sure how to ensure this at runtime.)
I'm not sure what you mean with 'subpar'. Ctrl+Shift+K would probably be
nice - but it might interfere with some shortcuts of programs.
Are you missing any other features?
(I am working on persistent scrollback for framebuffer consoles in the
mean time...)

Bye,

Manuel