Version: (using KDE 3.5.8) OS: Linux some terminals (programs running on terminals) do not require interactivity - their purpose is to show information on screen. it is more important that the text is legible than to show it as-soon-as-possible in bunches of flooding text. it would be nice if the scrolling speed could be adjusted, storing everything on a buffer first and printing on screen with a nice fixed-speed scrolling effect (ideally you could scroll with the arrow keys -instead of shift page-up/page-down and play-pause keys would be nice too)
> some terminals (programs running on terminals) do not require > interactivity - their purpose is to show information on screen. I understand what you are after but I think the terminal emulator is perhaps not the best place to implement this. More useful would be a program like 'cat' which can be used in a command pipe that buffers its input and then prints it out at a steady rate.
If you set the history size to unlimited, you can "pause" by scrolling up, and shift-up/down already work. That seems to leave only slow scrolling w/o needing to hold down an arrow key. (Also, 'less' can do much of this as well.)
I don't think emulator is the right place to do this.