string substitution for session name

2007-02-06 Thread Brian T.N. Gunney
After wanting to request a string substitution for the session name, I decided to hack it myself. The attached patch (to screen-4.0.2) allows you to replace %S with the session name for the purpose of displaying in the status line, for example: hardstatus lastline "%-Lw%{= BW}%48>%n%f* %t%{-}%+Lw

Re: New screen features available

2007-02-06 Thread Sadrul H Chowdhury
On 2/6/07, Michael Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You probably have a lot of suggestions and enhancement requests. Sorry that development is a bit slow at the moment due to not enough spare time... Hi. I have a feature request that I would like included in the next version. The fea

File descriptors and screen and you

2007-02-06 Thread Alan Young
I have a bit of perl code that I'm trying to make work: sub DB::get_fork_TTY { open my $SCREEN, qq{&3>1 screen -t 'Child $$' sh -c "tty &1>3 ; sleep 100" |} or return ''; my $tty = <$SCREEN>; return $tty; } I'm getting bad file descriptor errors, so I'm assuming screen is cle

Re: New screen features available

2007-02-06 Thread Alan Young
Michael Schroeder wrote: So, feedback welcome. You probably have a lot of suggestions and enhancement requests. Sorry that development is a bit slow at the moment due to not enough spare time... First, I'm glad to see continuing work on screen. Thanks for doing that. Second, I'd like to be ab

Re: New screen features available

2007-02-06 Thread cga2000
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 05:34:31PM EST, Michael Schroeder wrote: > > Hi Screen Users, > > you probably wonder why the new version of screen is not already > available. Well, it got delayed a bit because of a couple of new > features I've added. The development version is available from > GNU sava

New screen features available

2007-02-06 Thread Michael Schroeder
Hi Screen Users, you probably wonder why the new version of screen is not already available. Well, it got delayed a bit because of a couple of new features I've added. The development version is available from GNU savanna: cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sources/screen co screen Here are