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From: zador-anthony@yale.edu (anthony zador)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Can a SunView window scroll without editing?
Keywords: Windows
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Date: 20 Dec 89 15:35:01 GMT
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In article <3785@brazos.Rice.edu> jes@mbio.med.upenn.edu (Joe Smith) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 217, message 8 of 23
>
>Why do I have to choose totally dumb windows (shelltool) or windows that
>are full text editors (cmdtool)?  Of course when editing is disabled in a
>cmdtool, you lose the scrollback.
>

I have a related question. I use tcsh, which allows one to review recent
commands using the up-arrow (a nice feature copied from VMS, i guess).
This feature is somehow disabled in any suntool window with a scroll bar,
eg a cmdtool.  It works in X windows with scroolbars.