Hi Neal, BTW, if you can answer the question in this thread, http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-users/2018-09/msg00003.html, that will be super helpful.
Regards. On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 11:33 AM 张小潘 <zhangxiao...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Neal, > > Using 'readbuf' and 'paste' looks also very cool! > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 9:11 AM Neal Fultz <nfu...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 >>> >> > > -- > Xiaopan Zhang - (张小潘) > -- Xiaopan Zhang - (张小潘)
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