Question Regarding Navigating the Buffer

[Aaron Davies]

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
<address@hidden> wrote:
> 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 
> <address@hidden<address@hidden>> 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 <address@hidden> 
> 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
>
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