On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 06:11:33PM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote: >> * What about the bloat? > Screw the bloat, there are larger full-blown window managers around :-)
I don't think that the existence of bloat in *some* solutions for an unrelated problem domain is an excuse to add bloat to Screen. Or are you specifically referring to bloated window managers for the tty? Note that I don't believe replacing the existing, limited domain-specific language (DSL) used in ^A: and .screenrc with an embedded general-purpose language will *necessarily* add bloat. Using a third-party language would (hopefully) reduce the amount of code that the Screen developers need to maintain, as well as the obvious benefit to users of having more customizability. > The trend I would like to see is not just extending screen with a > powerful language but reducing the C code where possible by this > language. I'd certainly like the *core* of Screen to remain in C, or some other language for which an efficient optimizing compiler exists. I don't mind if extra bits (for example, the code to turn the window data into a string for %w) was converted to a language that's interpreted on-the-fly. Separation of "core" from "extra wank that users insist on" might also reduce the burden on the Screen maintainers. _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
