conEmu: Is it possible to lock scrollbar and prevent it from auto scrolling down

conEmu experts:

I have a script that prints a lot in a short time. So I want to disable the auto scrolling down when the script is running.

I don't want to use 'more' because it only allows turning next page by keyboard.

How to just make conEmu lock the scrollbar?

Thanks

Rafa

Posted 2014-07-04T11:54:42.500

Reputation: 83

Answers

You may only switch to alternative mode - Win+A or button on toolbar. That will be like a pause.

Locking scrollbar is useless, because when your output reaches the bottom of the scroll buffer, the contents will be scrolled upwards line by line, even if scrollbar is still at the end.

Maximus

Posted 2014-07-04T11:54:42.500

Reputation: 19 395

2But it is still useful when the scroll buffer has capacity left. I use a couple of thousand lines for the console buffer height and all of my commands' output fit into that. It would be nice to read the beginning of the output while the process is still appending new lines to the console (like e.g. IntelliJ does). – ThomasH – 2016-07-21T08:13:06.293

You can pause the output by pressing the Pause button on the keyboard, as explained here: https://conemu.github.io/en/AlternativeBuffer.html#pause

Also, you may press Pause key. It will pause most console applications (who just print text to ‘StdOut’). Press Pause key again to release.

maaw

Posted 2014-07-04T11:54:42.500

Reputation: 101

@fixer1234 I have updated my answer. Thanks. – maaw – 2019-07-03T13:20:22.757