microsoft / microsoft/terminal
Feature Request: ⬇️ button to appear when scrolled many pages up
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Description
Description of the new feature/enhancement
Sometimes people using the Terminal need to scroll very far up, and read a lot of previous output. They then want to return immediately all the way to the bottom of the terminal, to see the latest output.
Currently: users scroll a lot to get to the bottom of the terminal.
Proposed: when scrolled more than X lines up, a ⬇️ button should appear that scrolls to UI all the way down to the latest output. I'll leave the UI discussion up to you.
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- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating the terminal's scroll handling and UI code, then determine how to detect scrolling more than X lines upward and where a button could return the view to the latest output; done means the behavior works and is covered by relevant tests.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- cli, desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100