Comments on: Keyboard Ninja: Scrolling the Windows Command Prompt With Only the Keyboard

By: Tagnu

Tagnu — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:14:28 +0000

Thanks for the tip.

By: bill

bill — Tue, 12 May 2009 07:59:02 +0000

Thanks, but in my case scroll was not active.

Tyson’s trick was what I was looking for. Like I used to use /p to see page by page.

By: min

min — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:43:49 +0000

fantastic – I’ve been meaning to get round to working out how to do this for ages, nice post, thanks very much

By: Tyson

Tyson — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:02:18 +0000

Nice tip! Another way to accomplish the same thing without using the menus is to just end your commands with “|more” this way the output from your command stays on one screen until you press enter to get the next line of text.

Example

ipconfig/all |more

Have a nice day.

By: Planet Lowyat

Planet Lowyat — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:24:36 +0000

Cool! It may useful somehow sometimes.

By: The Geek

The Geek — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:25:34 +0000

spugbrap:

The keyboard text selection in the command prompt leaves much to be desired… it’s much simpler to use the mouse for that.

I’m also a die-hard keyboard guy… but if I can accomplish something quicker by using the mouse I usually resort to it.

I’ve been thinking, it would be interesting to hook up an autohotkey script to automate the hitting of the 4 keys whenever you hit Page Up the first time… shouldn’t be too difficult.

By: spugbrap

spugbrap — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:21:24 +0000

Thanks for the tip! I’m a die-hard keyboard/command-line user, and this could come in handy!

One thing that’s unfortunate, though, is that once I’m scrolling via keyboard, I can’t select/copy/paste text with the keyboard. I’m guessing this is because I have Quick Edit enabled in the console window properties.

I think I’ll just have to live with this one, though, because I have a feeling that even if I end up scrolling via keyboard some day, I’ll probably still end up falling back to the mouse for text selection/copy-to-clipboard functionality, and Quick Edit is a must for that.

Don’t get me wrong, I select/copy/paste text via keyboard is most applications (like text editors, where hitting End will take me to the end of the line), but I think in a console window it would probably be more trouble than it’s worth (since it would have no awareness of the contents of the lines, it would just be copying 2d arrays of characters).

By: Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:21:21 +0000

I never knew this, thanks for info, makes my life a hell of a lot easier

/Nathan

By: The Geek

The Geek — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:14:47 +0000

That’s a good point… I never liked the Launchy default, I use alt+space to minimize/maximize windows all the time.

By: Russ Francis

Russ Francis — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:49:46 +0000

If you have Launchy installed, you may want to change its default hotkey (also Alt+Space) in order to take advantage of this tip.