I tend to search for '$', since a screen hosting a shell will usually
have a prompt on its first line. (this obviously doesn't work if
you're screening other processes directly.)
On Tuesday, November 23, 2010, Pandurangan R S
wrote:
> Unfortunately regex search for scrollback buffer does not seem
This doesn't work for me either. I am pressing cntrl+b while in copy mode
and get a "pattern not found", although there is clearly an e in the
buffer.
I am using screen version 4.00.03 (FAU) 23-Oct-06
Dan
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Pandurangan R S wrote:
Unfortunately regex search for scrollback
Hi,
Thanks for your reply. No, it does not work. Immediately when I hit g
the cursor position goes to the first line of the buffer. If I
subsequently hit ^ nothing much seems to happen.
Dan
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Kevin Van Workum wrote:
Does "g^" do what you want? That should put the cur
Unfortunately regex search for scrollback buffer does not seem to be
supported by screen. I also needed to do this very much.
I am managing with this hack as of now
# Go to the beginning of scrollback buffer using Ctrl-B
bindkey -m ^B stuff "g/e^["
This searches for character 'e' (most probable
Does "g^" do what you want? That should put the cursor on the first
non-whitespace char in the buffer.
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Daniel Patrick Sullivan <
dansu...@uchicago.edu> wrote:
> Hi, Everyone,
>
> I have a quick question with respect to navigating screens buffer.
> Basically I work
Hi, Everyone,
I have a quick question with respect to navigating screens buffer.
Basically I work with embedded systems and often have to block and copy
more than a single screens worth of text to the buffer to attach to
tickets or send to customers, etc. I'd like to be able to copy and paste
2010/11/22 jonnexen :
> Hello,
>
> I'm gonna writing a bash install-script. There I want to make a command that
> checks if screen us running. If it's running the script should be going on.
> If not there should be an error. Any ideas?
>
if [ -n "$(screen -ls | grep 'screen on')" ]; then
echo
* jonnexen on Monday, November 22, 2010 at 09:24:22 +0100
> I'm gonna writing a bash install-script. There I want to make a
> command that checks if screen us running. If it's running the script
> should be going on. If not there should be an error. Any ideas?
In case you mean: is the script runni