Re: Man-writing volunteers?

2008-08-12 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:08:16PM -0700, Micah Cowan wrote: > Obviously incorrect, as I prefer the info manual. Especially since it is > much, _much_ easier to find the node corresponding to a given screen > command via info than via man: > > iscr="info '(screen)Command Index'" > iscr shelltit

Re: Man-writing volunteers?

2008-08-12 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 08:03:43PM +0200, Juergen Weigert wrote: > - [texinfo] just looks great, when printed on paper. On GNU systems, at least, "man -Tps" results in a reasonably good paper version, unless the manpage author made formatting blunders that weren't apparent on his tty (such as usin

Re: Man-writing volunteers?

2008-08-12 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 05:45:08PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > I will state at this point, categorically, that although being true > to GNU's roots is nice, I am dead against texinfo pages -- *no* one > actually reads them; heck, the existing info viewer is an > abomination, I think it would be mo

Re: Getting screen size into the env?

2008-08-12 Thread Michael Parson
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Juergen Weigert wrote: On Aug 07, 08 12:18:53 -0400, Mark Eichin wrote: "Thomas Adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: 2008/8/7 Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: However, if you use bash, it will set _shell_ variables, COLUMNS and LINES, automatically. This isn't something that

Re: Man-writing volunteers?

2008-08-12 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Adam wrote: > 2008/8/12 Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Anyway, enough ranting... down to logistics. It seems simplest to me for >> you to have push access on git. For that, you'll need to register an >> account with Savannah (if you don'

Re: Man-writing volunteers?

2008-08-12 Thread Thomas Adam
2008/8/12 Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In what way are you disagreeing with me? One for screen, and another for > screenrc, _would_ be splitting the manual up. The only disagreement we > seem to have is how many splits to make, apparently. IMO, having even > just two manpages would be a sign

Re: Man-writing volunteers?

2008-08-12 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Adam wrote: > 2008/8/8 Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> So, what would _really_ help me out in getting the documentation ready >> for a 4.1.0 release, is if someone would step up to volun

Re: Man-writing volunteers?

2008-08-12 Thread Thomas Adam
2008/8/12 Juergen Weigert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thomas, thanks for stepping forward! > Personally, I also prefer manpages. Probably mostly because > I know how to search and jump with less. No worries -- it makes a change from programming for me, but expect the odd patch now and then. ;) > On A

Re: Man-writing volunteers?

2008-08-12 Thread Juergen Weigert
Thomas, thanks for stepping forward! Personally, I also prefer manpages. Probably mostly because I know how to search and jump with less. On Aug 12, 08 17:45:08 +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > I will state at this point, categorically, that although being true to > GNU's roots is nice, I am dead again

Re: Man-writing volunteers?

2008-08-12 Thread Thomas Adam
2008/8/8 Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > So, what would _really_ help me out in getting the documentation ready > for a 4.1.0 release, is if someone would step up to volunteer to > maintain the man page. I put myself forward as a volunteer. >

Re: Windows groups with window splits

2008-08-12 Thread Sadrul Habib Chowdhury
* David Chanters had this to say on [12 Aug 2008, 09:25:22 +0100]: > Hi - > > i don't know if this has been asked before, but i am using the GIT > version of screen and am wondering if i can do the following: > > Assume i have two windows under screen, window1 and window2. In > window1 i issue t

Windows groups with window splits

2008-08-12 Thread David Chanters
Hi - i don't know if this has been asked before, but i am using the GIT version of screen and am wondering if i can do the following: Assume i have two windows under screen, window1 and window2. In window1 i issue the :split command and quite rightly then get a split window. However, if i then