Byobu save text

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1. Zach – Jan 21, 2021

   If the keyboard shortcuts are not working, try this:

   Ctrl + a, then enter the following command to save the pane's full text and not just the visible text:

   :capture-pane -S - -E -; save-buffer "$BYOBU_RUN_DIR/printscreen"

   Then you can view the captured text of the pane:

   $ vim $BYOBU_RUN_DIR/printscreen

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   1. anonymous – Jan 21, 2021

      see also man tmux for info on capture-pane

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2. ak – Apr 1, 2022

   Magnificent! Works as stated.

   I'm using BYOBU via Conda on CentOS 7 (in order to get version 5.133) and Shift+F7 wouldn't work as I have no idea where BYOBU_RUN_DIR is located nor how to determine where that setting it set. I even ran updatedb then searched for locate -ir printscreen$ which returned nothing.

   Thank you.

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