the visible screen is at the bottom of the history so goto-line should do
it too, or use top-line and cursor-down with send-keys -N

On Sun, 15 Dec 2024, 22:27 Trevor Avant, <trevorav...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok, is there anyway to make tmux go to a line number that is shown on the
> screen? It seems that goto-line only works for lines that are not visible.
> For example, in Vim you can enter the command ":7" which will move the
> cursor to line 7. Based on the tmux manual, that's what I thought the
> goto-line function did.
>
> On Sunday, December 15, 2024 at 4:37:33 AM UTC-5 Nicholas Marriott wrote:
>
>> goto-line will be from the start of the history, you can probably work if
>> out with scroll_position and/or history_lines as well.
>>
>> On Sun, 15 Dec 2024, 09:35 Trevor Avant, <trevo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> That would work if there is a way to return to that line number later
>>> (something like "goto-cursor-y"). The only thing I know about is goto-line,
>>> which seems to reference a line numbering system different than
>>> copy_cursor_y (on my computer, it seems to reference the hidden lines that
>>> do not appear on the screen).
>>>
>>> On Sunday, December 15, 2024 at 1:48:51 AM UTC-5 Nicholas Marriott wrote:
>>>
>>>> How about copy_cursor_y?
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, 15 Dec 2024, 06:43 Trevor Avant, <trevo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I would like to get the line number the cursor is on. I believe that
>>>>> tmux keeps track of this information as it has the goto-line function.
>>>>> Ultimately I would like to use this information to get the line number
>>>>> after a search-backward command, or get the line number after
>>>>> double-clicking the line.
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