Find text in the scrollback#

Search looks back through what a session printed. Each pane keeps the last 10,000 lines of output. Search finds text anywhere in that history, which is quicker than a scroll when you look for an error you saw a few minutes ago.

Search the focused pane#

Press Ctrl+F, or select Search in the toolbar.

Type the text you want, then press Enter to go to the first match. The terminal scrolls to the match and selects it. Press Enter again for the next match, and Shift+Enter for the previous one. The up and down buttons do the same. Press Escape or select the close button to finish.

Search selects one match at a time. It does not mark the other matches, so press Enter to step through them all.

What search will not find#

The tab has one search field, and it works on the focused pane. If four sessions are open and you want to find text in a different one, focus that pane and search again.

Search matches plain text and ignores capitalisation, so error finds Error and ERROR. You cannot change this: there are no regular expressions, no case-sensitive mode, and no whole-word matching. Search gives you no count of the matches either.

Search finds only what is in the scrollback. Output older than 10,000 lines is gone, and so is anything you cleared from the screen. If you work through something long and need to search it later, write the output to a file on the host instead of relying on the scrollback.