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Source: How do I increase the scrollback buffer in a running screen session?

Source: Understanding GNU Screen’s hardstatus strings

My cur­rent devel­op­ment setup revolves mainly around Vim and GNUScreen. I use Screen only to keep ses­sions run­ning between work days or in case I get dis­con­nected, but lately I’ve been tempted to try using dif­fer­ent win­dows inside Screen. In order to make this eas­ier, I wanted one of those sta­tus lines that shows you all your win­dows as “tabs”.

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Source: How to scroll in GNU Screen

GNU Screen is great. But, after half a year of using it, I’ve only now figured out how to scroll into screen’s buffer (courtesy of this tutorial). Normally, I just use SHIFT+PGUP to scroll up in urxvt’s buffer.

However, if I have two regions in screen, this doesn’t work. To scroll in screen’s buffer, I need to enter “copy mode”. To do this, type C-a [ or C-a ESC. (The latter option works great for me because I bound the prefix key to the backtick key instead of C-a.) Once in “copy mode”, I can scroll using the arrow keys or PGUP/PGDOWN keys. To exit “copy mode”, I press ESC. Scrolling within screen’s buffer instead of urxvt’s also prevents me from losing my place in my scrollback buffer when I switch screen “windows” (terminal sessions).