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Scrollback should be included in default config `.hyper.js`

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
62/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start with the generated default .hyper.js and locate where the default configuration is assembled, then check how config.scrollback is represented. Done means a newly installed default config includes the scrollback setting with the intended default value.

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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Current default scrollback is rather small (1000 lines). To make matters worse, while the value is configurable (via config.scrollback) this option is not included in the default config .hyper.js that one gets after installing hyper.

Describe the solution you'd like
Include scrollback in the default .hyper.js

Additional context
This has been raised before in a comment by @PButcher: https://github.com/vercel/hyper/pull/3038#issuecomment-1971695411

I'm making this an issue to make it more discoverable.

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