scrollback

The part of a scrolling display that precedes the current line or section.

Noun

  1. The part of a scrolling display that precedes the current line or section.
    • The program can hold as many as 5000 lines of a session in a scrollback buffer. - 1993 April, InfoWorld, volume 15, number 15:
    • New communications documents are set for a scrollback area of unlimited size […] - 1995, Charles Rubin, The Macintosh bible guide to ClarisWorks 4:
    • The scrollback buffer allows you to scroll back and review earlier commands and command output. - 2005, Dave Taylor, Learning UNIX for Mac OS X Tiger:

Origin

From scroll + back.

Synonyms

backscroll