scroll.1 (1655B)
1 .\" 2 .\" Copyright (c) 2020 Jan Klemkow <j.klemkow@wemelug.de> 3 .\" 4 .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any 5 .\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above 6 .\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. 7 .\" 8 .\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES 9 .\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF 10 .\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR 11 .\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES 12 .\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN 13 .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF 14 .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. 15 .\" 16 .Dd April 9, 2020 17 .Dt SCROLL 1 18 .Os 19 .Sh NAME 20 .Nm scroll 21 .Nd scrollback buffer 22 .Sh SYNOPSIS 23 .Nm 24 .Op Fl Mh 25 .Op Fl m Ar size 26 .Op program Op arg ... 27 .Sh DESCRIPTION 28 The 29 .Nm 30 utility saves output lines from the child 31 .Ar program 32 to use them for scrollback. 33 If 34 .Ar program 35 is not set, 36 .Nm 37 starts the users default shell. 38 .Pp 39 The options are as follows: 40 .Bl -tag -width Ds 41 .It Fl h 42 Shows usage of 43 .Nm . 44 .It Fl M 45 Set memory limit used for scrollbackbuffer to maximum. 46 .It Fl m Ar size 47 Set memory limit used for scrollbackbuffer to 48 .Ar size . 49 .El 50 .Sh EXIT STATUS 51 .Nm 52 exits with the status code of its the child 53 .Ar program . 54 .Sh EXAMPLES 55 .Nm st 56 .Fl e 57 .Nm scroll 58 .Nm /bin/sh 59 .Sh SEE ALSO 60 .Xr screen 1 , 61 .Xr st 1 , 62 .Xr tmux 1 63 .Sh AUTHORS 64 .Nm 65 was written by 66 .An Jan Klemkow Aq Mt j.klemkow@wemelug.de 67 and 68 .An Jochen Sprickerhof Aq Mt git@jochen.sprickerhof.de .