How can I navigate and copy some text from the past terminal output?
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### Problem
Very often when I work with
git
I need to copy some content from the output of the last command. And I hate switching from keyboard to trackpad/mouse.
**Case #1**
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➜ extract_ttc git:(feature/simplify-gha-workflows) git push
fatal: The current branch feature/simplify-gha-workflows has no upstream branch.
To push the current branch and set the remote as upstream, use
git push --set-upstream origin feature/simplify-gha-workflows
I need to copy git push --set-upstream origin feature/simplify-gha-workflows
manually to execute, so I switching to mouse/trackpad from keyboard
**Case #2**
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➜ extract_ttc git:(feature/simplify-gha-workflows) git push --set-upstream origin feature/simplify-gha-workflows
Enumerating objects: 9, done.
Counting objects: 100% (9/9), done.
Delta compression using up to 16 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done.
Writing objects: 100% (6/6), 1.16 KiB | 1.16 MiB/s, done.
Total 6 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (1/1), completed with 1 local object.
remote:
remote: Create a pull request for 'feature/simplify-gha-workflows' on GitHub by visiting:
remote: https://github.com/fontist/extract_ttc/pull/new/feature/simplify-gha-workflows
remote:
To github.com:fontist/extract_ttc.git
* [new branch] feature/simplify-gha-workflows -> feature/simplify-gha-workflows
Branch 'feature/simplify-gha-workflows' set up to track remote branch 'feature/simplify-gha-workflows' from 'origin'.
I need to copy https://github.com/fontist/extract_ttc/pull/new/feature/simplify-gha-workflows
again to execute open
### Questions
- Is there a way to navigate the terminal output of the past commands (without mouse/trackpad)?
- Is there some approach that doesn't depend on the terminal app (for example I use iTerm on OSX)?
- If there is no solution in the way how I imagined it: what are possible approaches to achieve the same with keyboard only?
Asked by CAMOBAP
(270 rep)
Dec 21, 2020, 02:42 PM
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