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+<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
+ type="task"
+ id="txt-save-text">
+
+ <info>
+ <revision version="0.1" date="2013-02-17" status="candidate"/>
+ <link type="guide" xref="index#textoutput"/>
+
+ <credit type="author copyright">
+ <name>Sindhu S</name>
+ <email>sindhus@live.in</email>
+ <years>2013</years>
+ </credit>
+ <credit type="copyright editor">
+ <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
+ <email>kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
+ <years>2013</years>
+ </credit>
+ <credit type="copyright editor">
+ <name>Michael Hill</name>
+ <email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email>
+ <years>2013</years>
+ </credit>
+
+ <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
+
+ <desc>Save <app>Terminal</app> output to a file.</desc>
+
+ </info>
+
+ <title>Save contents</title>
+
+ <comment>
+ <p>As of 3.34 only available in development versions hence file is commented in
+ /help/Makefile.am. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-terminal/issues/71</p>
+ </comment>
+
+ <p>You can save all the output from a <app>Terminal</app> tab or window to a
+ text file. This may be useful if you have to submit the terminal output as
+ debugging information.</p>
+
+ <steps>
+ <item>
+ <p>Go to <gui style="menu">File</gui>.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Select <gui style="menuitem">Save Contents…</gui>.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Choose your desired directory and enter a filename.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Click <gui style="button">Save</gui>.</p>
+ </item>
+ </steps>
+
+ <note style="tip">
+ <p>You may optionally input a file extension along with the filename, for
+ example <input>.txt</input>. This may be useful if you plan to view the
+ file when using another operating system.</p>
+ </note>
+
+</page>