Re: Question Regarding Navigating the Buffer

This doesn't work for me either.  I am pressing cntrl+b while in copy mode 
and get a "pattern not found", although there is clearly an e in the 
buffer.

I am using screen version 4.00.03 (FAU) 23-Oct-06

Dan

On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Pandurangan R S 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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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