Add a note about using the scrollback pager history for large scrollbacks

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Kovid Goyal 2020-09-09 12:17:19 +05:30
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@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ o('scrollback_lines', 2000, option_type=scrollback_lines, long_text=_('''
Number of lines of history to keep in memory for scrolling back. Memory is allocated
on demand. Negative numbers are (effectively) infinite scrollback. Note that using
very large scrollback is not recommended as it can slow down performance of the terminal
and also use large amounts of RAM.'''))
and also use large amounts of RAM. Instead, consider using :opt:`scrollback_pager_history_size`.'''))
o('scrollback_pager', 'less --chop-long-lines --RAW-CONTROL-CHARS +INPUT_LINE_NUMBER', option_type=to_cmdline, long_text=_('''
Program with which to view scrollback in a new window. The scrollback buffer is