Re: order of flags

2008-07-26 Thread James
cool! thanks for the research-- it's the best reply i've gotten in a while! cheers, _J On 7/26/08, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > James wrote: > > hello, > > just wanted to know why the following command gives: > > > > $ screen

Re: order of flags

2008-07-26 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James wrote: > hello, > just wanted to know why the following command gives: > > $ screen -RRx > There is no screen to be attached. > > whereas typing: > > $ screen -xRR > > gives a new screen session. (or attaches to an existing one with multiuser

Re: Two little features (and a bounty?)

2008-07-26 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joe Zbiciak wrote: > Micah, > > This may be a silly question, but how does "screen" decide that the > attaching terminal supports capturing mouse events? It could be that > nano says it's interested, but screen thinks they're not available. > > I

Re: [screen-devel] Scripting Support for Screen

2008-07-26 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 06:11:33PM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote: >> * What about the bloat? > Screw the bloat, there are larger full-blown window managers around :-) I don't think that the existence of bloat in *some* solutions for an unrelated problem domain is an excuse to add bloat to Screen.

Re: [screen-devel] Scripting Support for Screen

2008-07-26 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 01:01:10AM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote: >> "M-x term" within Emacs pretty much fits the bill. > Only a dumb terminal, though :( > http://hannes.saeurebad.de/images/no-recursive-emacs.png M-x term is not the same as M-x shell. The former provides VT220 (or thereabouts) emu

order of flags

2008-07-26 Thread James
hello, just wanted to know why the following command gives: $ screen -RRx There is no screen to be attached. whereas typing: $ screen -xRR gives a new screen session. (or attaches to an existing one with multiuser mode) at the moment i'm using the second command as my "always run screen like t

Re: [screen-devel] Scripting Support for Screen

2008-07-26 Thread Johannes Weiner
Mark Eichin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Micah Cowan wrote: >>> To be honest, implementing a Screen within Emacs makes almost as much >>> sense as giving Screen Emacs-like scriptability >> >> Come to think of it, that functionality more-or-less already

Re: Two little features (and a bounty?)

2008-07-26 Thread Joe Zbiciak
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:06 AM, Joe Zbiciak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This may be a silly question, but how does "screen" decide that the > attaching terminal supports capturing mouse events? It could be that > nano says it's interested, but screen thinks they're not available. > > I'm no ex

Re: Two little features (and a bounty?)

2008-07-26 Thread Joe Zbiciak
This is the point of the conversation where I butt my head in and look stupid. :-) - Original Message Micah Cowan wrote: > >> Wait, where are you running screen? My assumption was that you be > >> running it ON prime.gushi.org, not before you ssh in. > > Right. I'm doing both. > > >> W

Re: [screen-devel] Scripting Support for Screen

2008-07-26 Thread Johannes Weiner
Hi, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Johannes Weiner wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Micah Cowan wrote: To be honest, implementing a Screen within Emacs makes almost as much sense as giving Screen Emacs-like scriptability >>> Come to think o

Re: [screen-devel] Scripting Support for Screen

2008-07-26 Thread Johannes Weiner
Hi, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Micah Cowan wrote: >> To be honest, implementing a Screen within Emacs makes almost as much >> sense as giving Screen Emacs-like scriptability > > Come to think of it, that functionality more-or-less already exists; > "M-x term" within Emacs pretty mu

Re: [screen-devel] Scripting Support for Screen

2008-07-26 Thread Johannes Weiner
Hi Tom, "Tom Scogland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > All of this is pretty correct, except that the gnu emacs we know was lisp > with a C core for a long time because redraw was impossible to write > efficiently enough in lisp for some reason. As such, when the program > entered that state, ever

Re: [screen-devel] Scripting Support for Screen

2008-07-26 Thread Johannes Weiner
Hi, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi. I started working on a lua script loader for screen last night. I am > quite happy with the progress so far. I would like to know what people > think about this kind of work. I discussed about this briefly with Micah > last night, and h