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I'm starting to use tmux, and I already love it. But if I could search through scrollback history it would be even better (e.g. like in iTerm2). Is there a way to do it as of now?

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When you're in scrollback mode, you can use ctrl-S to search. More useful information here: How can I search within the output buffer of a tmux shell?

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    Ctrl-S works for emacs bindings. If your tmux is using vim bindings, enter copy mode and use slash (`/`) – phs Jan 20 '17 at 20:23
  • Warning - this does not handle newlines. e.g if you search for a string, but that string occurs split across multiple lines, you will miss the split results! – Adverbly Jan 15 '20 at 21:01
  • with vim bindings, `/` is to search *down*, but you most like want to search *up* with `?` – jan-glx Jul 06 '23 at 06:18