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scroll up and down

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This will activate copy mode in GNU/screen. Now, you can scroll up/down and look at your data. Use the following keys:

1. Ctrl-u and Ctrl-d scroll the display up/down by the specified amount of lines while preserving the cursor position. (Default: half screen-full).
2. Ctrl-b and Ctrl-f scroll the display up/down a full screen.

From the man page - following movement keys can be used in copy mode:

• h, j, k, l move the cursor line by line or column by column.
• 0, ^ and $ move to the leftmost column, to the first or last non-whitespace character on the line.
• H, M and L move the cursor to the leftmost column of the top, center or bottom line of the window.
• + and - positions one line up and down.
• G moves to the specified absolute line (default: end of buffer).
• | moves to the specified absolute column.
• w, b, e move the cursor word by word.
• B, E move the cursor WORD by WORD (as in vi).
• C-u and C-d scroll the display up/down by the specified amount of lines while preserving the cursor position. (Default: half screen-full).
• C-b and C-f scroll the display up/down a full screen.
• g moves to the beginning of the buffer.
• % jumps to the specified percentage of the buffer.

For searching use the following vi like syntax:

• /SearchWord - Vi-like search forward.
• ?SearchWord - Vi-like search backward.

Press q to exit back to the terminal.