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bryanlarsen on Aug 9, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Debian 13 “Trixie”

Infinite scroll length on terminals can chew through /tmp, and systems misbehave strangely when they're out of /tmp.

spauldo on Aug 10, 2025 [–]

What terminal emulators default to infinite backscrolling? Genuinely curious here. I've used xterm with a scroll buffer of 512 lines for three decades now and outside of large builds I can't imagine wanting more than that.

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