### Discussed in https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/discussions/4779

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<sup>Originally posted by **kdheepak** March 12, 2023</sup>
### Bug description

Currently, when running `quarto preview` for a while and editing multiple pages, there's lots of output on `stdout`. If I accidentally close the tab with the preview (and if I'm not able to reopen it because it's been a while), I'm not able to go back to the terminal and see the URL where the preview server is hosting the code. I have to either try to scroll all the way up (sometimes this has exceeded my scrollback buffer) or I have to restart `quarto preview` (which before using `freeze` and `cache` took a long time to execute).

One of these options would solve it for me - Either show the URL after updates, or allow the user to press a key that prints out the URL.

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cderv
2023-03-13T11:12:32Z
cderv
enhancement
v1.4
open
Running `quarto preview` should show localhost url more frequently
https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/4796