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Re:Ghostty 1.0 by sionisrecur on Thursday December 26, 2024 @07:39PM (#42519029)
Search was the first thing I noticed it was lacking. I hope it can be added at some point, sometimes you can't just run a command again to grep it.
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Re:Ghostty 1.0 by mixmastamyk on Thursday December 26, 2024 @11:57PM (#42520045)
Guessing y’all mean search of the scrollback buffers?
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Re:Ghostty 1.0 by 3r7j6qzi9jvnve on Friday December 27, 2024 @01:30AM (#42520329)
(probably, I was also looking for that)
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Re:Ghostty 1.0 by rainbowjelly on Friday December 27, 2024 @04:42AM (#42521035)
Mitchell said it is planned in a recent interview on the Changelog podcast[1], just not in time for 1.0.

[1]: https://changelog.com/podcast/622

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Re:Ghostty 1.0 by fn-mote on Friday December 27, 2024 @08:43AM (#42521980)
The kitty method of piping the scroll back buffer to a pager is more general - it also seems like a quick fix to achieve this desired feature.
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Re:Ghostty 1.0 by WD-42 on Friday December 27, 2024 @01:33PM (#42524681)
I really like how Kitty handles search. I thought it was a hack at first - then came to realize why re-implement search if less works better?
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Re:Ghostty 1.0 by sionisrecur on Monday December 30, 2024 @10:53AM (#42550391)
I noticed a keybinding for write_scrollback_file (defaults to super+shift+j) which does this. So you can use `grep something <super+shift+j>` to search for things. It's a nice workaround until search is implemented.
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