I tend to search for '$', since a screen hosting a shell will usually have a prompt on its first line. (this obviously doesn't work if you're screening other processes directly.)
On Tuesday, November 23, 2010, Pandurangan R S <pandurangan....@gmail.com> wrote: > Unfortunately regex search for scrollback buffer does not seem to be > supported by screen. I also needed to do this very much. > > I am managing with this hack as of now > > # Go to the beginning of scrollback buffer using Ctrl-B > bindkey -m ^B stuff "g/e^[" > > This searches for character 'e' (most probable alphabet) from the beginning > of scrollback buffer, after this i manually navigate to the actual point! > > > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Kevin Van Workum > <vanw+scr...@sabalcore.com <vanw%2bscr...@sabalcore.com>> wrote: > > Does "g^" do what you want? That should put the cursor on the first > non-whitespace char in the buffer. > > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Daniel Patrick Sullivan > <dansu...@uchicago.edu> wrote: > Hi, Everyone, > > I have a quick question with respect to navigating screens buffer. Basically > I work with embedded systems and often have to block and copy more than a > single screens worth of text to the buffer to attach to tickets or send to > customers, etc. I'd like to be able to copy and paste this text using the > screen's native capabilities. > > My problem is that when I enter the buffer and type "g" to go to the top, it > actually goes to the top of the buffer, not to the first non-whitespace > character in the buffer". I basically want to copy the entire buffer > starting with the first non-whitespace character. Is there a way to navigate > to the first non-whitespace character in the buffer, or am I best just > copying the entire buffer and figuring out how to strip out the leading > whitespace later? > > Thanks, > > Dan > > _______________________________________________ > screen-users mailing list > screen-users@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users > > > _______________________________________________ > screen-users mailing list > screen-users@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users > > > -- Aaron Davies aaron.dav...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
