Module 5 · Lesson 19 min

Scroll mode

Scroll mode (Ctrl s) lets you page back through a pane’s output history. You scroll by line, by half-page, and by full page, and jump straight to the bottom when you’re done reading. The half-page keys are the ones you’ll use most; they’re the sweet spot for reading back through a build or a log.

Scroll mode

`Ctrl`then`s`	Enter Scroll mode
`j`	Scroll down one line
`k`	Scroll up one line
`d`	Half page down
`u`	Half page up
`Ctrl`then`f`	Full page down
`Ctrl`then`b`	Full page up
`Ctrl`then`c`	Jump to the bottom and return to Normal

Practice

Try it yourself

Scroll through some history

Generate output and page back through it.

Run something with lots of output, like seq 1 500 or ls -la /usr/bin
Press Ctrl s to enter Scroll mode
Use u and d to move half-pages, k and j for single lines
Press Ctrl c to jump back to the bottom

Done whenYou scrolled up through the output and snapped back to the live bottom with Ctrl c.