On Monday 15 June 2009 17:02:23 clemens fischer wrote: > Would it be true to say that "process" is like "stuff", but it handles > text in registers instead of literal text? Yes, but "process" handles the text "as if it had been typed in from the user’s keyboard." Keep that in mind.
> say I have: > > register r "eval 'echo text one' 'sleep 3' 'echo text 2'" > > is there a way to evaluate this register as screen commands? How would you evaluate the contents of the register as screen command doing it manually?: - Press Ctrl+A (or whatever you have you escape key set to) - Press ":" (colon) key - Type in: eval 'echo text one' 'sleep 3' 'echo text 2' - Press Enter With "process" is the same, just that you use some special notation for some keys: register r "^A:eval 'echo text one' 'sleep 3' 'echo text 2'^M" The same steps as above: - ^A (screen parses this as a Ctrl+A) - ":" (colon) - eval 'echo text one' 'sleep 3' 'echo text 2' - ^M (screen parses this as Enter) Or you could insert a literal "Ctrl+A" or "Enter" by typing "Ctrl+V , Ctrl+A" or "Ctrl+V , Ctrl+A". That works within vim or bash shell (probably not in a gui editor). Note how these literals are displayed "^A" and "^M". So if you need other special keys, you can do the "Ctrl+V , ..." sequence at a bash shell to find out how to type that key in screen commands. _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
