This perfectly falls into the catalog of the proposed 'event handler' part of screen scripting support, which is a gsoc idea. I think we can try it out in the scripting way when the support is done.
Regards, Rui On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 18:09 -0400, Paul Hoffman wrote: > I'd like to add simple logging of important "events" in screen (a new > window is created, the user switches to another window, the session is > detached, etc.). Before I start coding, I'm wondering if anyone else is > interested in this or has comments. > > Here's a rough cut at documentation additions: > > ----------- >8 ----------- >8 ----------- >8 ----------- >8 ----------- > > COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS > -E file > turn on automatic event logging to the given file. See the > EVENT LOGGING chapter and the "eventlog" .screenrc command > for details. > > DEFAULT KEY BINDINGS > C-a E Begins/ends event logging. > > CUSTOMIZATION > eventlog [on|off] > > Turn event logging on or off. Event logging is off by default. > > eventlogfile filename > > Specify the file to which events are logged. A small subset of > string escapes may be used in the filename argument to divide > event logging among several files: > > S session name > n window number > d day number > D day name > Y full year number > m month number > M month name > > eventlogtstamp [on|off] > eventlogtstamp string [string] > > This command controls the event logfile time-stamp mechanism of > screen. If time-stamps are turned "on" (the default), screen > adds a string containing the current time at the beginning of > each line it writes to the event logfile. The second form is > used for customizing the time-stamp string (`%Y-%m-%dT%0c:%s' by > %default). > > EVENT LOGGING > > If event logging is turned on (via the -E option or the > "eventlog" command), a message will be written to the specified > file each time any one of several significant events takes place. > > The events are logged using the following printf(1) formats: > > session %s begun > session %s detached > session %s attached by user %s > session %s renamed: %s > session %s ended > window %d begun: %s > window %d unfocused > window %d focused > window %s renamed: %s > window %s ended > > Each message is preceded by a timestamp in the form > YYYY-mm-ddTHH:MM:SS (the "eventlogtstamp" command may be used to > turn this off or customize the timestamp format). > > ----------- >8 ----------- >8 ----------- >8 ----------- >8 ----------- > > Looking at the code, this doesn't seem to be too hard to add (famous > last words). My one worry is that splitting event logging among > multiple files is too complicated; perhaps it would be best to just log > everything in a single file. And there should be a default > eventlogfile, but I haven't thought that through yet. > > Thanks, > > Paul. > _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
