Add exportBuffer action (1.13)

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From microsoft/terminal#12097

Buffer Exporting

Export Buffer

This allows the user to export the text of the buffer to a file. If the file doesn't exist, it will be created. If the file already exists, its contents will be replaced with the Terminal buffer text.

Command name: exportBuffer

Default bindings:

{ "command": { "action": "exportBuffer" } },

Actions

Name	Necessity	Accepts	Description
path	Optional	String	If provided, then the Terminal will export the buffer contents to the given file. Otherwise, the Terminal will open a file picker to choose the file to export to.

Important

This feature is only available in Windows Terminal Preview.

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[fischerdouglas]

Export console buffer automatically.

I'm not a programmer, but considering this is now a macro, in theory you could create something like:
-> On close the TAB (or the entire WT), run this macro to export the console buffer.

I imagine this would need to be defined in the profiles that opened each TAB.
Also, as the path and filename are required, this could be set from environment variables like:

• TAB name
• Date and time (including seconds and milliseconds to avoid file duplications)
• Maybe even a sequential number