Is there anyway I can make it so I can easily scroll up and read "the buffer" when in lish?

say I do a simple command: ls -l from lish and the output goes on multiple pages I cannot scroll up and read it using the ssh client Putty (i can get around this by doing ls -l > /somefile then vi /somefile).

When I login to my linode from its SSH server I can scroll up without any problems however I usually turn SSH off for added security and only login to Lish.

You can always do a:

ls -l | less

To pass ("pipe") a commands output to a pager like less or more.

Although I must agree that regular old scrolling text in lish would be nice.

Lish uses "screen" to attach to your Linode, so "regular old scrolling text" really isn't possible. (Unfortunately.)

Yes it is -- you just have to tweak the conf for screen.

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Jay Faulkner
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Ctrl-a Esc in screen allows scrolling with PageUp/Down and cursor keys

Edit: use Esc to exit from this mode...