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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Fri, 25-Apr-86 23:12:00 EDT
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TITLE:  Scroll control under CLI

This is not ^S/^Q or anything like it.

Think of it as "clean type-ahead".

Basically, anytime the CLI input buffer is non-empty, it stops sending
lines to the screen.  This keeps the echoing of your characters from
being mixed with whatever's being written to the screen.

Thus when you type a few characters, scrolling stops.  If you backspace
back over those characters, scrolling restarts.  Since the CLI treats
^X as a "line-kill" character, typing ^X clears the input buffer and
allows scrolling to continue.  In addition, typing a CR empties the input
buffer and allows scrolling to continue.  Typing a CR also has the effect
of having the CLI record whatever you have typed as "type-ahead" which
will be acted upon as soon as the CLI finishes whatever it is currently
doing.

The CLI treats a typed ^S as just another input character.  Thus if
you type one scrolling stops.

The CLI treats a typed ^Q as just another input character ALSO.  Thus if
you type one scrolling stops (or stays stopped).

Personally, I use, Space and Backspace as my "scroll control" characters.
Others here use different combos.

As pointed out by someone else, you can also use the mouse buttons to
lock the CLI window temporarily which has the effect of stopping
scrolling as well.