I have a similar vim shortcut - for me, instead of using the stuff command, I write to /tmp/screen-exchange, and then use readbuf and paste screen commands. This also lets you send text containing multiple lines eg for python.
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 8:43 AM 张小潘 <zhangxiao...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > I have been using GNU screen for many years and have some personal > modifications to make it work better in my environment. There is one change > I am looking for contribute back to main repository. > > Typically I have two monitors connected to my workstation, and I run one > screen session in a terminal window on each of these monitors. One screen > is used to run a Vim session, another screen is used to run a bash > session. The trick here is I wrote a Vim script so that in a special > buffer of the vim window, I can edit bash commands, and send these commands > to run on the screen window by using "/usr/bin/screen -S <session> -p > <window> -X stuff <shell-command>", which is really handy. (I can share the > vim script if anybody wants to see, but that is not my main point here) > > One thing annoys me is that screen uses a predefined constant in the > source code to define the size to receive the remote command, that is: > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git/tree/src/screen.h#n44 > #define MAXSTR 768 > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git/tree/src/socket.c#n1297 > char fullcmd[MAXSTR]; > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git/tree/src/socket.c#n1309 > ... > if (!(fc = strncpy_escape_quote(fc, p, fullcmd + ARRAY_SIZE(fullcmd) > - 2))) { /* '"' ' ' */ > > Msg(0, "Remote command too long."); > > ... > > My shell commands are usually quite long (binary with dozens of command > line flags) and it can easily exceed the 768 limit. So in my local screen > source copy, I changed it to 16384, which works really well for me. As I > think in modern computers usually come up with several Gigabytes memory, 16 > k is really a small number, so I am writing this email to see if I can > contribute this change back to screen main repository, and if yes, what is > the appropriate steps to do it. > > Regards. > > -- > Xiaopan Zhang - (张小潘) > _______________________________________________ > screen-users mailing list > screen-users@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users >
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