Search scrollback

Todd - Thu 19/01/2012 15:50:58 CET +0100

I would like to see a search feature added to Kitty so that the scrollback buffer could be searched for specific words, similar to Windows Notepad.

lee - Wed 11/04/2012 14:40:50 CEST +0200

Did you ever receive a reply to this? I am really interested in how to do this as well, other than copying to a notepad file then searching that. Thanks.

Naush - Thu 04/04/2013 04:18:01 CEST +0200

+1 ,
Ideal would be there is configurable editor ( like Gvim) and key shortcut to launch scroll back buffer and current screen in your preferred editor.

I also need key shortcut to clear scroll back buffer.

Tom - Sun 01/03/2015 11:38:55 CET +0100

Any chance of this being added ?

Or the ability to copy the scrollback buffer to a defined application with a hotkey ?
so one press and the application opens with the buffer loaded ?

Thanks

Tom - Mon 02/03/2015 13:44:49 CET +0100

I've managed to sort a work around.

I've written a small script that sits waiting for me to press a predefined key.
This is only active when Kitty is the active window.
Then when I press F3 the script copies the scrollback buffer, opens my chosen text editor, opens a new tab, pastes the buffer in and opens the search box.

This all happens in a split second and I'm now sat at the active search box input field.
Seems to work OK and has the added benefit of using the search features of an app I know.

Barcoboy - Fri 18/09/2015 14:38:00 CEST +0200

+2 this request... once for me, and another for my colleague who I got to switch over from SecureCRT to KiTTY. This is the one thing he misses.

Luciano - Wed 22/02/2017 22:01:43 CET +0100

Why scrollback is cleared on clear screen ? Are there ways to keep scrollback just like putty ?

rlodbrok - Fri 10/03/2017 15:25:16 CET +0100

Hi, you can also use GNU screen or Tmux server-side to enable such user experience features.

Stevo - Thu 01/02/2018 16:05:59 CET +0100

Any chance someone (like Tom) could post an example script that uses a hotkey to pull the scrollback and start a program to edit and search it ??

Dean Householder - Thu 01/02/2018 22:43:20 CET +0100

I'm guessing he's using something like AutoHotkey to do this. It's a simple programming language and can make hotkeys in a single line.

I could write something if someone needs. Just describe what exactly you want it to do.

Stevo - Tue 06/02/2018 15:21:54 CET +0100

Hey Dean

     AutoHotkey is enough of a hint to get the ball rolling myself, thanks for the tip.. If I conjure up something useful I'll post it up

Stephen

Tom - Mon 15/10/2018 00:31:59 CEST +0200

Sorry I didn't followup on this thread.
I did use AHK to allow the capture of the scroll back buffer, then open notepad++ and paste the buffer into that.

Once it's pasted the find window is opened.

I expanded on this so pressing F4 in a kitty session opens the same session in winSCP, this also works in reverse. Pressing F4 in winSCP opens the same session in kitty.

All seems to work well.

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