New idea's for gnome-terminal? [CLOSED]

G. S. Tatch · Last edited by G. S. Tatch on Fri Jul 23, 2010 3:59 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hi,

Don't really know where to post this, so here I go...

Is there a way to search through the terminal? I use gnome-terminal, and there's no search functions, it seems...

I figured, that might be nice....

G. S. Tatch

krinn · Watchman Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7470

as the buffer is limited you can only search for few text, so i don't think anyone saw an utility for that.
if it's search for files, slocate, whereis... all tools work

i think grep & more/less/head... are the tools that might get close to what you want get

G. S. Tatch · Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 10:04 pm Post subject: Just a button...

No, just a button...

Like in gEdit, the "find" button...

You can define the scrollback amount...

Mine's 8192.... Edit > Profile Preferences > Scrolling, and whoop, there the setting is!

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jw5801 · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 8:45 am Post subject: Re: Just a button...

G. S. Tatch · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 9:21 am Post subject: That's not what I meant...

Does anyone use gEdit, maybe it's easier to explain it to someone that uses that...

From all the output in the terminal, there's not a quick way to search through that....

Sorry, it's in most browsers as well... I'm using Epiphany, but Firefox will do it to.. press ctrl+f and there's a search function... That's what I'm talking about...

What did you people think I'm talkin' about?

Me...

// Take the semicolon to Jamie Cullum....

John R. Graham · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 11:16 am Post subject:

Mostly, I think you're talking to people that aren't involved with Gnome Terminal development. :wink:

A couple of people have suggested that the *nix search tools (grep, sed, awk, etc.) are so much more powerful that they don't find the feature you're describing all that compelling. I'm afraid I'm in that camp, too.

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jw5801 · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 11:24 am Post subject: Re: That's not what I meant...

G. S. Tatch · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:45 pm Post subject: A few scenario's

In which you try to find a certain package from the emerge -s output when the list is too long...

Situations in which the output only gets posted to the terminal...

G. S. Tatch

jw5801 · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:59 pm Post subject:

Etal · Veteran Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 1931

Konsole has a Find function (Ctrl+Shift+F)

G. S. Tatch · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 2:09 pm Post subject: Closing proposal?

It still doesn't autoselect me the querried querry....

Does someone know howto contact the gnome-terminal people?

Maybe they'll see it as a handy additive....

It isn't because it's an everyday thing it should be there... I just think it's a handy addon...

But thanks for the comments anyway, should I close it?

G. S. Tatch

John R. Graham · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 3:12 pm Post subject: Re: Closing proposal?

G. S. Tatch · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 3:56 pm Post subject:

Well thanks John..

I shall close the topic.

G. S. Tatch