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Please come up with reverse searches and forward searches in terminal and I swear I will change my primary OS to Windows.

sp332 5y ago
PowerShell has shipped with PSReadLine since version 6.
laqq3 5y ago
I’ve been using Ctrl+Shift+f in Windows Terminal for this (it searches terminal output/its scroll back buffer).
- jakopo87 5y ago
  It's not the same: reverse/forward searches look into command history to let you relaunch commands prevously used.
  - deleted 5y ago
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_hsgp 5y ago
By reverse search do you mean this [link redacted] because you can do that with Ctrl-R now :)
pdpi 5y ago
Reverse/forward searches are features of the shell, not the terminal. As others have noted, PowerShell supports those.
- colordrops 5y ago
  tmux supports this.
  - oblio 5y ago
    Tmux is not a terminal, though.
- hansel_der 5y ago
  > searches are features of the shell, not the terminal no, tmux/screen implement search in the terminal output buffer and work well.
  - oblio 5y ago
    Do they, though? They have their own buffer.
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systemvoltage 5y ago
Terminal features would be a footnote in the 1400 page book containing list of things I'd like to see in Windows :-)
- ant6n 5y ago
  And a 1000 of those are bugs that have been around since Windows 98.
  - noisem4ker 5y ago
    Any example?
    - ant6n 5y ago
      One simple one: If I start multiple Kopies/file downloads, Windows will run them all in parallel, even if they run through the same connection. So if after 50% there´s a connection drop, all of them will abort. This used to be especially bad on nicely defragmented disks, because the extra seeking makes parallel copies slower then sequential ones. Even after all this time, they can`t figure out to automatically chain I/O operations (or at least give me some UI to do it explicitly).
nickjj 5y ago
I highly recommend using tmux. It works well with the MS terminal (and other terminals). You'll get forward and reverse searching, split panes, windows (similar to tabs), excellent window and pane management binds (moving them, switching orders, zooming in / out, etc.), persisted sessions that you can save and restore across reboots and good mouse support if you want it. The best part is it works the same with every terminal so you can super charge any terminal and use the same tmux configuration in multiple environments. This way you can make a terminal choice based on optimizing for speed, low key press latency and other traits that make a terminal feel nice to use. I gave a command line talk once that focuses on using tmux, Vim and various Unix tools at https://github.com/nickjj/nyhackr-cli-dev-env https://github.com/nickjj/nyhackr-cli-dev-env. The slides and video links are listed there. The videos all have timestamps so you can jump around to the tmux bits pretty easily.
stinos 5y ago
Fuzzy history search like fzf does is in my experience quicker. And also works in Powershell.
- ripley12 5y ago
  Are you using PSFzf or something else? https://github.com/kelleyma49/PSFzf https://github.com/kelleyma49/PSFzf
  - stinos 5y ago
    I used to use PSFzf indeed: it's pretty good and got me started with fzf on PS, but the history reading nor file scanning are particularly fast so currently I'm using some C# code to do those and pipe it into fzf directly. Don't recall exactly but the most basic C# code I could come up with which does 'read history file in reverse and skip duplicates' was like 3 times faster than what PSFzf uses.
ossopite 5y ago
Clink [https://mridgers.github.io/clink/ https://mridgers.github.io/clink/] adds this functionality and much more to good old fashioned command prompt (which I prefer to powershell because it's much faster and simpler)
- rashil2000 5y ago
  That repo is extremely outdated. Here's the official(?) supercharged fork, which is actively developed - https://github.com/chrisant996/clink https://github.com/chrisant996/clink
  - ossopite 5y ago
    Huh, I did wonder if there was an updated fork but I obviously didn't look hard enough. Thanks!
yrro 5y ago
https://mridgers.github.io/clink/ https://mridgers.github.io/clink/ gives you readline editing in cmd.exe

sp332 5y ago

PowerShell has shipped with PSReadLine since version 6.

laqq3 5y ago

I’ve been using Ctrl+Shift+f in Windows Terminal for this (it searches terminal output/its scroll back buffer).

jakopo87 5y ago
It's not the same: reverse/forward searches look into command history to let you relaunch commands prevously used.
- deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]

_hsgp 5y ago

By reverse search do you mean this [link redacted] because you can do that with Ctrl-R now :)

pdpi 5y ago

Reverse/forward searches are features of the shell, not the terminal. As others have noted, PowerShell supports those.

colordrops 5y ago
tmux supports this.
- oblio 5y ago
  Tmux is not a terminal, though.
hansel_der 5y ago
> searches are features of the shell, not the terminal no, tmux/screen implement search in the terminal output buffer and work well.
- oblio 5y ago
  Do they, though? They have their own buffer.

deleted 5y ago

[deleted]

systemvoltage 5y ago

Terminal features would be a footnote in the 1400 page book containing list of things I'd like to see in Windows :-)

ant6n 5y ago
And a 1000 of those are bugs that have been around since Windows 98.
- noisem4ker 5y ago
  Any example?
  - ant6n 5y ago
    One simple one: If I start multiple Kopies/file downloads, Windows will run them all in parallel, even if they run through the same connection. So if after 50% there´s a connection drop, all of them will abort. This used to be especially bad on nicely defragmented disks, because the extra seeking makes parallel copies slower then sequential ones. Even after all this time, they can`t figure out to automatically chain I/O operations (or at least give me some UI to do it explicitly).

nickjj 5y ago

I highly recommend using tmux. It works well with the MS terminal (and other terminals). You'll get forward and reverse searching, split panes, windows (similar to tabs), excellent window and pane management binds (moving them, switching orders, zooming in / out, etc.), persisted sessions that you can save and restore across reboots and good mouse support if you want it. The best part is it works the same with every terminal so you can super charge any terminal and use the same tmux configuration in multiple environments. This way you can make a terminal choice based on optimizing for speed, low key press latency and other traits that make a terminal feel nice to use. I gave a command line talk once that focuses on using tmux, Vim and various Unix tools at https://github.com/nickjj/nyhackr-cli-dev-env https://github.com/nickjj/nyhackr-cli-dev-env. The slides and video links are listed there. The videos all have timestamps so you can jump around to the tmux bits pretty easily.

stinos 5y ago

Fuzzy history search like fzf does is in my experience quicker. And also works in Powershell.

ripley12 5y ago
Are you using PSFzf or something else? https://github.com/kelleyma49/PSFzf https://github.com/kelleyma49/PSFzf
- stinos 5y ago
  I used to use PSFzf indeed: it's pretty good and got me started with fzf on PS, but the history reading nor file scanning are particularly fast so currently I'm using some C# code to do those and pipe it into fzf directly. Don't recall exactly but the most basic C# code I could come up with which does 'read history file in reverse and skip duplicates' was like 3 times faster than what PSFzf uses.

ossopite 5y ago

Clink [https://mridgers.github.io/clink/ https://mridgers.github.io/clink/] adds this functionality and much more to good old fashioned command prompt (which I prefer to powershell because it's much faster and simpler)

rashil2000 5y ago
That repo is extremely outdated. Here's the official(?) supercharged fork, which is actively developed - https://github.com/chrisant996/clink https://github.com/chrisant996/clink
- ossopite 5y ago
  Huh, I did wonder if there was an updated fork but I obviously didn't look hard enough. Thanks!

yrro 5y ago

https://mridgers.github.io/clink/ https://mridgers.github.io/clink/ gives you readline editing in cmd.exe