Fix common "wall of text" issue when commands generate lots of output

[mikemaccana]

Description of the new feature/enhancement

A common issue of many terminal is 'wall of text'. For example, the user runs a command, the command generates 4000 lines of text, and it's difficult to scroll, say, exactly to the beginning of the previous command to begin reading the output.

Warp is a new terminal that purports to solve this issue . Windows Terminal should solve it too.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

I can't use Warp (it doesn't have a Windows version yet) but I propose a simple implementation would be to allow the user to specify their prompt, so pressing (some shortcut key) will return to the previous instance of that prompt.

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$: ls /dir

(5000 lines of text)
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$: (pressing somekeyboard combo goes to last instance of `$:`

There may be a better way though. Shell prompt could signal the terminal somehow (like the shell beep does).

[zadjii-msft]

Boy would you be interested in #12948 😉

fig 4: scrolling between marks

/dup #11000

[ghost]

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!

[mikemaccana]

@zadjii-msft Yes, yes I would 💯