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Re: How to perform search in gnome terminal?



Rodolfo Medina wrote:

> I have Debian Sarge 3.1 r2, with Gnome.
> It seems that the gnome terminal does not support
> word search? It looks strange to me, 'cause it's
> an important function: I couldn't find any item 
> that would do that.
> Any hint?


Lothar Braun writes:

> What do you mean with "word search"?


Rodolfo:
     
>>>> Search for a word or an expression in the whole terminal `history'.
>>>> This is very useful, almost indispensable in some cases.
>>>> I used to use that quite often with KDE graphical environment,
>>>> before switching to Gnome.



Håkon Alstadheim <hakon@alstadheim.priv.no> writes:

> Emacs. M-x shell.
> Run C-h t to get a tutorial, including terminology and key-bindings.


That's simply incredible. Thanks.
:)
Rodolfo
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