Question: ![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/rT9hA.png)I have been banging my head around this one, I am trying to debug a nodejs application and my terminal is not displaying the entire list of errors, it is stuck at the top part as show in the image and I cannot scroll further up ? 

Im on 14.04 mate if that helps

Answer: 
Depending on your terminal, you could also enable "unlimited" scrollback. In GNOME Terminal (and presumably its MATE equivalent), select *Profile Preferences* in the *Edit* menu:

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bwZaB.png)
It looks like you're trying to read the output of some program you're running, not a log file...

You could redirect stderr to a logfile before running the program, then all error messges would be written to a logfile, something like this would tee stderr to a file and also leave it visible in the terminal (for "live" viewing if that's important):

```
errorlog=~/setup-errorlog.txt
exec 2> >(tee -a $errorlog >&2)

```

And redirecting stdout to a logfile would be the basic `command > file`

Then to view a big logfile, can use `less /var/log/syslog` for example. And could be combined with `grep` to just find interesting results, and/or piped to less or another file first.

It looks like your terminal window has run out of it's max scroll lines (scrollback), so the "unlimited scrollback" answer looks good too