On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 12:08:21PM -0800, Leander S. Harding wrote: > Search is indispensably useful and needful overall for general command > output, which is why it should be implemented with a powerful/good ui > at the multiplexer/TE layer, so that you're not maintaining two or > more search facilities with similar-but-slightly-differing features. > > This though leads me toward the implementation of a suckless > scrollback+select/yank/urlpick/etc handler that comes with a 'pager' > util that just toggles its scroll-lock state like this. Like an even > more suckless dvtm with the one extra feature that's on my mind right > now. :)
Latest dvtm pipes the scroll back buffer content to external tools such as dvtm-pager(1) (by default a shell wrapper around less(1) preserving color escape codes) and dvtm-editor(1) a small utility invoking $EDITOR for copy mode. That way your regular editor features can be used to search, select and copy parts of the scroll back buffer content. -- Marc André Tanner >< http://www.brain-dump.org/ >< GPG key: 10C93617