Killing backticks when bouncing screen.

2009-01-19 Thread Chris Jones
I have written a few scripts that display monitoring counters on the hardstatus line. Thinking I would avoid the overhead of starting new processes, particularly for stuff that requires frequent updates in order to be relevant .. such as CPU utilization, I thought I'd write scripts that run in th

Odd "backspace" behavior?

2009-01-19 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all, I've currently got my prompt set like so: if ($TERM == "screen") then #alias precmd'printf "\033%s%s %s\033\\" "k" "tcsh" "[$HOST]"' set prompt="%{\ek%}tcsh [$HOST] %{\e\\%}\%" alias postcmd 'printf "\033%s%s %s %s\033\\" "k" "\!#:0" "\!#:$" "[$HOST]"' endif what I notice, howev

time formatting?

2009-01-19 Thread Aaron Davies
there doesn't seem to be a specific escape for hour or minute, and %c prints unpadded and colon-separated. for purposes of setting 7logfile, i'd like to be able to get the same time format that date +%H%M%S yields (ie zero-padded and unpunctuated) -- Aaron Davies aaron.dav...@gmail.com

Wheel scrolling (WAS: Re: screen on linux vs freebsd)

2009-01-19 Thread dae3
On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:56:27 -0800, Micah Cowan wrote: > See the FAQ on the Wiki (currently the top item: "How do I get screen to > put things into my terminal's scrollback?") for an alternative method, > and reasons why it may not be advisable (in particular, in combination > with switching from

Re: EOL switch?

2009-01-19 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Leslie P. Polzer wrote: > Hi, > > it seems that some random screen command* switches Screen into > sending ^M instead of a proper newline. > > Does anyone here know of a command that switches things > like this? I don't know of any screen commands t