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 > >
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