Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: vte2.91 (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1627007
Title:
patch - fix reverse search in various terminal apps
Status in Gnome Virtual Terminal Emulator:
Fix Released
Status in vte2.91 package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
[Impact]
Due to a regression in vte2.91 0.44.0, reverse search was broken in
various terminals like mate-terminal (GTK+3 build) or gnome-terminal.
Searching with Ctrl-Shift-G could show you a result or two in the
currently visible part of terminal log, but further searching (with
scrolling the terminal upwards) stopped working completely.
This wasn't fixed in version 0.44.2, so 0.44.2-1ubuntu2 in Ubuntu
16.10 still has this bug. The fix was recently applied upstream, and
it would be good to have it backported to 16.10.
The debdiff with the fix is in the attachment below.
[Test Case]
1. Have Ubuntu 16.10 and mate-terminal or gnome-terminal.
2. Have a lot of text in your terminal window, enough to make the vertical
scrollbar show. For example, you can build some package which is built with
autotools. You'll get lots of occurrences of the same word, like 'make' or
'installing'.
3. Try searching for some word with reverse search.
[Regression Potential]
The code change in the patch only affects the search functionality,
and that was already broken so you can't break it more. I've tested
both forward and reverse search with the patch, and they both work
fine now. I consider the regression risk to be quite low here.
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