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0 pointsklooney4mo ago0 comments

There seems to be a contingent that just doesn't use scroll back search, which I find kind of baffling.

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There are a ton of people who _immediately_ open tmux/zellij/etc. when they're doing anything in the terminal. This means you use its backscroll and search feature, and you wouldn't notice.

@mitchellh seems to rely on the Ghostty feature to dump scrollback to a file, and edit/search over that.

I found it a bit too inconvenient when using remote systems frequently, though. (If I'm missing a trick, I'd love to use Ghostty! But I'm just not a fan of multiplexers.)

sevg4mo ago

I’ve never used scrollback search, and it was a discovery for me that there’s a contingent that are very vocal in their demands for scrollback search.

I can see why someone would feel attached to this feature though.

Mostly I’m looking forward to seeing it implemented so I can stop reading complaints about this being missing in every thread about ghostty!

doritosfan844mo ago

My use cases are trying to find the one test that failed out of my suite and finding a specific log print when my app is running. Yes, there are other ways to do both of these. Having scrollback search in the terminal is a very convenient option though.

Shadowmist4mo ago

I wish they didn’t lock the GitHub issue so that we could see how many thousands more reactions it would get.

tharos474mo ago

I use ctrl+R for search that way I'm not dependent of a terminal emulator features and can get to work even on random computers.

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#index-rev...

doritosfan844mo ago

I think most people that want this feature want to be able to search through terminal output, not the commands they've previously used.

bigstrat20034mo ago

Honestly, I had never even heard of it before this very thread. It doesn't seem all that useful to me, but I don't truthfully know how much or how little I would use it in practice.

gsinclair4mo ago

Same here. What I think I’d like more is the ability to open the most recent command output in $EDITOR.

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__float4mo ago

There are a ton of people who _immediately_ open tmux/zellij/etc. when they're doing anything in the terminal. This means you use its backscroll and search feature, and you wouldn't notice.

@mitchellh seems to rely on the Ghostty feature to dump scrollback to a file, and edit/search over that.

I found it a bit too inconvenient when using remote systems frequently, though. (If I'm missing a trick, I'd love to use Ghostty! But I'm just not a fan of multiplexers.)

sevg4mo ago

I’ve never used scrollback search, and it was a discovery for me that there’s a contingent that are very vocal in their demands for scrollback search.

I can see why someone would feel attached to this feature though.

Mostly I’m looking forward to seeing it implemented so I can stop reading complaints about this being missing in every thread about ghostty!

doritosfan844mo ago

Shadowmist4mo ago

I wish they didn’t lock the GitHub issue so that we could see how many thousands more reactions it would get.

tharos474mo ago

I use ctrl+R for search that way I'm not dependent of a terminal emulator features and can get to work even on random computers.

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#index-rev...

doritosfan844mo ago

I think most people that want this feature want to be able to search through terminal output, not the commands they've previously used.

bigstrat20034mo ago

Honestly, I had never even heard of it before this very thread. It doesn't seem all that useful to me, but I don't truthfully know how much or how little I would use it in practice.

gsinclair4mo ago

Same here. What I think I’d like more is the ability to open the most recent command output in $EDITOR.

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