Searching, copying and adjusting the font
Find text in the terminal, copy and paste, clear and scroll the screen, and adjust the panel's font size.
Search the content
The Terminal’s search is local to the active panel: it scans what is in that panel’s buffer, not the project.
- The search shortcut opens and closes the terminal’s search bar.
- A second pair of shortcuts navigates between results — and keeps working even with focus inside the search field, which saves clicking back into the terminal for every occurrence.
- Selecting text and asking to “search this” opens the search already filled with the selection.
- Until a global page search exists, the search shortcut keeps belonging to the terminal — that is a recorded decision, not an oversight.
Limits worth knowing: the search sees what is still in the buffer. History already discarded by the retention ceiling is not found, and processes that draw on an alternate screen may behave differently from an ordinary shell.
Copy, paste, clear and scroll
| Action | Effect |
|---|---|
| Copy | Acts only when there is a selection. The text goes to the system clipboard. |
| Paste | Delivers the clipboard text to the process — the same sending rules apply here: pasting is not the same as submitting. |
| Clear the screen | Erases the screen and the active panel’s history. It is irreversible for that panel. |
| Scroll to top | Pins the display at the top; new output stops pushing the screen. |
| Scroll to bottom | Resumes following the output. |
Clearing the screen discards local history. If you need the content later, copy it first. A cleared session stays alive — what disappeared was what that panel had stored.
Scrolling is also what prevents the feeling of a “frozen terminal”: when the display is pinned at the top, new output keeps arriving, but out of sight. Scrolling to the bottom resumes following it.
Adjust the font size
- The adjustment is per panel, not global: enlarging one panel’s font does not change the others.
- The limits are 8 to 32, in steps of 1, starting from the size configured in the preferences.
- It only acts on the active panel — the panel must have focus.
- Restore goes back to the preference size and removes that panel’s adjustment.
- When the size changes, the display is refitted to the new size, and the terminal reflows the content.
The per-panel adjustment is a working-session adjustment, not a durable preference: to change the default size of every terminal, use the appearance preferences.
What is not here
Global terminal appearance preferences belong to the Settings screen, not to this page — changing them there is what alters the default for all new panels.