Hi, your idea goes a bit beyond the original plan of sm, and as one of the key points of sm is simplicity, I’m going to be careful with adding features.
But if well defined and documented, such an "remote control API" could indeed be useful. Add "dbus service" to the list of crazy ideas :-) Using control characters on stdin means that buffering issues have to be taken care of. Probably not a big deal, but might be inconvenient when using this API from the shell. File monitoring would be a nice, simple idea, in conjunction with inotify (or whatever the name of the current file monitoring API is called, it seems to change often :-)). Are you interested in/capable of programming that and sending a patch? Note that since a short while screen-message works on Windows as well. A patch should either be portable of contain the necessary #IFDEFs. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nome...@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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