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Re: Is there a way of getting current xterm buffer?

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From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Sebastian Gniazdowski <sgniazdowski@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Is there a way of getting current xterm buffer?
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 11:16:10 +0200
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On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 9:48 AM Sebastian Gniazdowski
<sgniazdowski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I would like to implement a from-screen-words completion. For this,
> I need the current screen text. People have already used tmux for
> this, however I don't use it. Is there a way to somehow read
> screen-text/ I've have had hopes for it when reading xtermctl and
> promptnl (this function reads cursor position, so I've thought that
> maybe it could read the character at given position…), but no
> success at the end.

In general, terminals don't have this capability. The only terminal I
know that does is tmux. This isn't really a zsh question.

Roman.

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