I have been using zsh in OS X Terminal.app and for quite some time, I have been craving a way to jump back and forth between previous / subsequent prompts on the terminal output.
One convenience with this would be to be able to view (and track errors) at the end of each output of the command; eg. when you build material from a source using ./configure; make; make install.Note: I obviously donβt mean skipping back and forth in the history of the teams, but for a way to look at the end of each output of the team.
Has anyone heard of such functionality in the * nix world (Mac is also desirable)? Will it require some kind of OS-oriented terminal plugin, or can it be programmatically executed through a shell script that can be bound to a keyboard shortcut? Maybe I just think about it? :)
Edit: Here is an example script: let's say I want to compile and install some program (using the standard procedure ./configure && make && make install), and after the make command I encountered some errors. Now, as I understand it (maybe I'm wrong), the critical error causing the make command error usually appears in the last line (s) of the output, no? Anyway, at this moment I could do something like cat INSTALLto read the INSTALL document to check if there is something that I missed. NOW, if I want to go back to find out what happened that led to the failure of my original make command, I will have to manually scroll it to this position since my command cat INSTALLprinted a ton of text after it.
, - , "" ; ls, make, git status - "" .