Searching the scrollback buffer
If you are using Terminator then Ctrl-Shift-F
allows you to search in the scrollback buffer without needing to run screen
or tmux
I don't know about Terminator but an option is to use GNU screen
(inside any terminal) which comes with its own scroll buffer which can be searched in copy mode with ?
, /
like in vi
. It doesn't support case insensitive, regex or whole word search though you can add that as an extension by writing a script that dumps the scroll buffer into a file and do whatever you like with it (including telling screen
to scroll up to a given location and position the cursor in copy mode).