Easily copy result of last command without having the command still in view

[somewhatabstract]

The awesome shell integration makes it really easy to rerun commands and copy the output from those commands. However, it seems one can only copy the output if the line the command was executed from is still within the scroll limit of the terminal. For some very long runs this is inconvenient. It would be really nice to be able to:

1. Copy output of last command from a terminal
2. Copy output of any command in the history of that terminal, if it is available to be copied

Both without having to scroll to the point the command was executed.

[Tyriar]

Once there is too much data we no longer have access to it. Sounds like you probably want to increase the size of your scrollback. This is what I use:

"terminal.integrated.scrollback": 50000

All the memory for the buffer gets reserved ahead of time for performance reasons so this will increase RAM usage by a fixed amount per terminal you have open.

I like the idea of having a command for copying the output of the last command that you could hook up to a keybinding 👍

[meganrogge]

You can also get the output from a command via workbench.action.terminal.runRecentCommand and then click the output/document icon

These are only stored for the session, but might help you. @Tyriar I don't believe we get rid of commands that are outside of the scrollback, do we?

[Tyriar]

@meganrogge I don't think so but we do lose access to their output

[lramos15]

@Tyriar I wonder if the command name should change Terminal: Copy Last Command makes you think the command would be copied but instead this is to copy the output