Sorry I thought goto-line did the visible screen but actually it doesn't. I don't have time to change it so you will need to do something like "send -X top-line; send -N 5 -X cursor-down" instead.
On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 at 05:29, Trevor Avant <trevorav...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm having the same problem again - goto-line does not work unless there > are more lines in the history than in the terminal. Here's a minimal > example: > > - open a terminal (I tried gnome-terminal, kgx, and konsole) > - run tmux > - run the command "echo hi" in the terminal > - press Ctrl+B then [ to go to copy mode > - press : to enter the goto-line prompt > - press 1 (or any number larger than 1) and Enter > - I remain on the lowest line > > I'm running tmux 3.5a, Arch Linux, and an empty ~.tmux.conf. > > On Sunday, December 15, 2024 at 11:08:43 PM UTC-5 Trevor Avant wrote: > >> Ok thanks, yeah it seems to work now, not sure what my problem was. I can >> convert between the copy_cursor_y line number system to the goto-line line >> numbering system by subtracting copy_cursor_y from pane_height-1. It would >> be great if in the future tmux supported a way to get the cursor line >> number in the goto-line numbering system. >> On Sunday, December 15, 2024 at 5:30:29 PM UTC-5 Nicholas Marriott wrote: >> >>> 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, <trevo...@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. 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