From 0cc54484a4c686d339dff47b768f12261cc20e25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kovid Goyal Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2020 12:17:19 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Add a note about using the scrollback pager history for large scrollbacks --- kitty/config_data.py | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kitty/config_data.py b/kitty/config_data.py index ac1fb306b..7b970a43d 100644 --- a/kitty/config_data.py +++ b/kitty/config_data.py @@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ o('scrollback_lines', 2000, option_type=scrollback_lines, long_text=_(''' Number of lines of history to keep in memory for scrolling back. Memory is allocated on demand. Negative numbers are (effectively) infinite scrollback. Note that using very large scrollback is not recommended as it can slow down performance of the terminal -and also use large amounts of RAM.''')) +and also use large amounts of RAM. Instead, consider using :opt:`scrollback_pager_history_size`.''')) o('scrollback_pager', 'less --chop-long-lines --RAW-CONTROL-CHARS +INPUT_LINE_NUMBER', option_type=to_cmdline, long_text=_(''' Program with which to view scrollback in a new window. The scrollback buffer is