Guake: Text search in the current terminal

[kikecalpe]

Want to be able to make text search in the terminal http://guake.org/ticket/362
Reported by: sylock Owned by: somebody
Priority: minor Milestone: 0.5.0
Component: guake Version:
Keywords: Cc:
Description

It would be great being able to make search on the output of the shells. For exemple, with a shorcut CTRL-f. And n for next match (and N for previous match). Being able to use regex in the search would be great either.

[gsemet]

I really like this feature!

[gsemet]

Should not be difficult: Provided by https://developer.gnome.org/vte/unstable/VteTerminal.html#vte-terminal-search-set-gregex

TODO:

• display a "firefox"/"chrome" search panel on Ctrl+F (or Ctrl+Shift+F)
• search next (on "Enter") / previous (On "Ctrl + Enter")
• support regex

[Ginja]

+1

[alex-kirienko]

Can you implement this feature ? Please

[gsemet]

I really would like but I have not time to work on guake for the moment

[rbu]

Oh I would love this. It's a shame guake is missing this feature in comparison to the regular gnome terminal or something like yakuake.

[ckorobov]

+1

[gsemet]

Sadly, the python-vte module doesn't export the search methods. This means there is quite a big change to do on the binary itself, and then upload to maintainers and distributions (ubuntu, ...) and then, only then, have access to these methods... I'll try another way...

[gsemet]

delayed. No response from python-vte maintainer.... :(

[peter-umb]

Any movement on this? I would really appreciate this.

[gsemet]

Need to port to gtk3

[vivex]

+100000

[jcrsilva]

Sounds like VTE is giving everyone problems https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/terminator/+bug/271487

[dev-tim]

+1

[gabidi]

+1

[gsemet]

indeed, seems also not fully exposed in gtk3. Kinda depressing

[fabriciofreitag]

+1

[oldusername91]

+1

[jidar]

+1

[vbarseghyan]

+1

[junhuihuang]

+1

[nayabbashasayed]

+1

[SharpEdgeMarshall]

+1

[Everis]

+1

[nielsenmg]

+1

[aliayoub]

+1

[sr500]

+1

[lucidyan]

+1

[sandis321]

+1

[ppaschenko]

+1

[sparkleholic]

:+1:

[gsemet]

now guake works on gtk3, we can put this feature back on the plan :)

[gsemet]

soon!

[iliazlobin]

Yeah, It would be great feature.
I propose something more:

• live-search: when lines would be disappeared if they doesn't correspond to search pattern
• hotkey to clear screen buffer: if we want to clear history before executing command and then starting search. Then we can known by what history the searching would be done.

[overthetop]

+1

[BrendanJMurphy]

+All the numbers
This would be incredible!!!

Also as another feature, allow us to have an unlimited scroll history... When building something large like a framework and you want to search for "ERROR" or something, you can't even save the entire build process output to a file to search, let alone search from a terminal....

[gsemet]

unlimited scrolling is already a Guake feature :)

[JukMR]

I would too really appreciate this feature !! Guake is just an awesome terminal and I think it's the only thing missing.

[preactive]

I get shamed by my java developers for not having search while going though java console output.

Cannot wait for this feature! Thanks!

[gsemet]

I agree, I started the development of the UI, but do not have time to finish it for the moment. Too many important stuff to do at work. I hope I'll have a quiet summer at work so that I can finish the search, split terminal and save/load session features !

[BrendanJMurphy]

That would be incredible!!

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018, 4:36 PM Gaetan Semet [e-mail] wrote:

I agree, I started the development of the UI, but do not have time to
finish it for the moment. Too many important stuff to do at work. I hope
I'll have a quiet summer at work so that I can finish the search, split
terminal and save/load session features !

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[toritsejuFO]

This feature hasn't been implemented yet? I just tried searching with the intuitive command (Ctrl+f and Ctrl+shift+f) but it didn't work. And I can't find any command that does so in preferences.

[daroczig]

I ended up using tmux in Guage for this purpose.

[toritsejuFO]

Oh yeah ;). I only like using tmux on remote servers though, and not locally because of the hassle of scrolling. Thanks for replying anyways.

[uocxp]

+1

[rennekon]

+1

[Nikitenko]

I believe and hope.

[gsemet]

Hi guys :) just had a baby girl, so maintaining guake is now low priority, but i’ll try to continue on it when possible, at least to release a new version with recent change. Text search is not hard, just need some time...

[toritsejuFO]

Congratulations! :)

[howyay]

Congrats :D

[preactive]

Congratulations on the baby girl @gsemet!

[gsemet]

and if one of you want to have a look at the code, do not hesitate ! Pull Requests are very much loved here :)

[derrix060]

@gsemet I'm very keen to implement it, but I have no idea for what to start.. Can you provide some high-level steps of what needs to be done to support it?

[gsemet]

Hi. a glade file has been started some months ago, not sure how to deal with it.

• having a dialog box sucks. Not really usable, except done carefully
• I like how iterm2 on mac does that:
  
  
  
  • a small text search appear on the screen (a-la firefox), and by default you actually search backward which is exactly was we want to do most of the time
  
  
  • you can still search forward
  
  
  • text are automatically selected so it is visually compeling
  
  

Appart by installing the dev environment (see the documentation), and hacking the python code, I can't say more on that. Once you have started hacking and see how it works, it is not really difficult. Time consuming yes. Difficult no :) Good luck

[frederickjh]

Tilda another dropdown terminal has had this feature since Nov 17, 2015. Switching to Tilda was my solution for searching in a dropdown terminal. On Ubuntu you can install with sudo apt install tilda.

[gsemet]

Done in #1533

[chax]

Hi, i just tested this new feature and i must say search box doesn't look good with dark theme because overlay background is light-colored and dark themes usually have light-colored fonts, so it's barely visible and it's very hard to read what you type. At first i thought it's not working because i couldn't see the text at all until i really focused my eyes on the search box. Also, background is not transparent as the rest of the terminal, so it looks really ugly and it really stands out from the rest of design. At least make background the right color (the one provided by the current selected GTK theme).

[gsemet]

Hi. Can you open a new ticket for this request please?

Le ven. 26 avr. 2019 à 11:47, Mislav Čakarić [e-mail] a
écrit :

Hi, i just tested this new feature and i must say search box doesn't look
good with dark theme because overlay background is light-colored and dark
themes usually have light-colored fonts, so it's barely visible and it's
very hard to read what you type. At first i thought it's not working
because i couldn't see the text at all until i really focused my eyes on
the search box. Also, background is not transparent as the rest of the
terminal, so it looks really ugly and it really stands out from the rest of
design. At least make background the right color (the one provided by the
current selected GTK theme).

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[chax]

yep, will do

[chax]

@gsemet Here it is: #1561