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echo: rberrypi
to: STEFAN ENZINGER
from: A. DUMAS
date: 2017-04-21 11:57:00
subject: Re: Alternatives to LXter

On 21/04/2017 06:09, Stefan Enzinger wrote:
> On 2017-04-19 03:32, bob prohaska wrote:
>> Second, it would be really handy to have a "find" function, similar to
>> Apple's Terminal program in OSX, that will search the scrollback area
>> for keywords.
>
> My first guess was that this might be a feature of the shell, not the
> terminal, but I couldn't find anything in bash or zsh.

Yeah no, it searches in both input and output, so the whole scrollback
buffer, as if it was all one plain text document. (Which I guess *could*
still be the shell, but terminal much simpler.) Pretty handy sometimes.

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