> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.tyba.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Scrollback search > Finding what already scrolled by — and the 10,000-line ceiling that decides what you can find. ## Opening `⌘F` opens and closes search for the active pane. `Ctrl+Shift+F` opens and closes search for the active pane. Also via **right-click in the terminal** → *Search in terminal*. The box appears in the pane's top-right corner. The search belongs to **the pane** — each terminal has its own history, and search only sees that one. ## Navigating | Key | What it does | | ----- | ---------------------------------------- | | `↵` | Next result | | `⇧↵` | Previous result | | `Esc` | Closes and returns focus to the terminal | The `▲` `▼` arrows in the box do the same as `⇧↵` and `↵`. As you type, TYBA already marks the first result — no need to press Enter to see where it hit. ## The counter To the right of the field: | What shows | What it means | | -------------- | ------------------------------------------------- | | `3/17` | You're on the third of seventeen. | | **No results** | The term doesn't exist in this pane's scrollback. | | *(empty)* | You haven't typed anything yet. | Results are painted with **your theme's colors**: every match gets one marking, and the active one another. Change the theme and search changes with it. ## It comes pre-filled If you had something **selected** when you opened search, the query starts with that text — already selected in the field, ready to be replaced if it isn't what you wanted. This only applies to **single-line** selections. A selection with a line break pre-fills nothing: search is for running text, and a three-line query would never find anything. The flow this unlocks: you spot a commit hash, a request ID or a filename in the output, double-click it, `⌘F`, `↵` — and you're walking through every other time it appeared. ## The 10,000-line limit The terminal keeps **10,000 lines** of scrollback. Fixed. **Whatever went past those 10,000 lines doesn't exist anymore.** Search doesn't find it because there's nothing to find — the line was discarded when the 10,001st arrived. This isn't a number you can raise: there's no field in Settings, no hidden preference, no file to edit. A `cat` of a huge log, a verbose build, an agent dumping a diff — any of them pushes out whatever was there before. If what you need to find is half an hour and a thousand commands back, the place to look isn't the terminal's search — it's the file, the log or `git`. ## What search doesn't see | | | | -------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Other panes** | Each pane has its own buffer. Search covers the active pane only. | | **Closed sessions** | Close the pane and it's gone. | | **History from before you reopened the app** | The local process doesn't survive closing TYBA: the session comes back, the buffer doesn't. **SSH panes are the exception** — the remote shell stays alive and the reattach brings the buffer with it ([persistence](/en/ssh/persistence)). | | **Regex** | There's no regex, "whole word only" or "match case" toggle in the box. It's a text search. | ## See also Selecting and copying — what feeds search. Where to remap `⌘F`.