Well you could run a tmux command in your PS1 or output some escape sequence 
tmux recognises. But currently there isn't one that will mark a position in the 
history. Although it's quite a nice idea.

-------- Original message --------
From: Kaushal <kaushal.m...@gmail.com> 
Date:21/01/2015  12:24  (GMT+00:00) 
To: Nicholas Marriott <nicholas.marri...@gmail.com> 
Cc: tmux-users <tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net> 
Subject: Re: Quick way to scroll up in the pane to the previous occurrence of 
prompt 

That was my question. I wasn't sure if there's an internal way to send a signal 
to tmux when a command prompt appeared on the shell.

Thanks.

-- 
Kaushal Modi

On Jan 21, 2015 4:04 AM, "Nicholas Marriott" <nicholas.marri...@gmail.com> 
wrote:
How would tmux know you were entering something at a command prompt?


On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 03:26:11PM -0500, Kaushal wrote:
>    Hi,
>    I can probably do a reverse search of a constant string in my prompt to
>    reach the previous occurrence of prompt, the place in pane history where I
>    last typed anything at command line.
>    But the constant string in my prompt is just 2 characters.
>    Is there a better way to do this? Can a "line number" variable be added
>    (or does something similar already exist?) that updates each time user
>    enters something at command line.
>    This would be useful to me because for my application, I run some
>    executable and then I see thousands of lines at stdout. It would be great
>    to simply jump up to the point in pane history where I entered that last
>    command.
>    --
>    Kaushal Modi

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