How can I scroll up more (increase the scroll buffer) in iTerm2?

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How can I scroll up more on iterm2 to get full output? At times, for example if I am doing unit tests, the errors are so large than I need to keep scrolling up to which I cannot scroll up anymore but the output continues further up beyond the top of the scroll. How can I access that? I tried page up more but not getting me there.

Iterm Solutions

Solution 1 - Iterm

There is an option “unlimited scrollback buffer” which you can find under Preferences > Profiles > Terminal or you can just pump up number of lines that you want to have in history in the same place.

Solution 2 - Iterm

Solution: In order to increase your buffer history on iterm bash terminal you've got two options:

> Go to iterm -> Preferences -> Profiles -> Terminal Tab -> Scrollback Buffer > (section)

Option 1. select the checkbox Unlimited scrollback

Option 2. type the selected Scrollback lines numbers you'd like your terminal buffer to cache (See image below)

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Solution 3 - Iterm

Tree Step:

  1. cmd + ,
  2. Profiles Tab
  3. Select "Terminal" and mark the "Unlimited scrollback"

now restart your terminal and BOOM

Watch video here: https://i.imgur.com/yFwduAl.mp4

Solution 4 - Iterm

macOS default terminal (not iTerm2)

> macOS 10.15.7

  1. open Terminal
  2. click Prefrences...
  3. select Window tab
  4. just change Scrollback to Limit number of rows to: what your wanted.

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