Support Searching Across Windows

[Doug Warner]

It would be helpful to search across terminal windows; shift-ctrl-f works well for one window, but it would be great to be able to search across multiple/all windows.

It will probably be difficult to notice where the search result is in multiple windows without bug #271487.

I don't know if this is something that can be exposed via D-Bus; I'm kind-of envisioning a gnome shell extension that so that you can search across all windows' terminal output from the overview/expose view, similar to iTerm2. If the search can be executed from d-bus we could probably just iterate over all the windows and issue the search.

[XANi (xani666)]

In addition to that, expose all tab/terminal titles in DBUS API.

Ability to make a plugin that would search in each terminal's title would be amazing, I find myself often searching for "that terminal on that server" that I left open with some job running on some tab.

[Stephen Boddy (stephen-j-boddy)]

@XANi: Those are very different functionality, and should be raised as a completely separate wishlist items to avoid obscuring/confusing this one.

There were some recent(ish) updates after the 0.98 release to the DBus API ( http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~gnome-terminator/terminator/trunk/revision/1651 ) that let you get the title of a given terminal's window or tab. It's just a case of expanding this to include the terminal titlebar.

A plugin that searches by matching titlebar, tab title, or window title would also just be a case of someone doing the work.