Re: how to use "process"?

2009-06-15 Thread Gerald Young
Sorry, left out something. After putting the commands into the register, then use "process" with that register: register r "^A:eval 'echo text one' 'sleep 3' 'echo text 2'^M" process r ___ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.

Re: how to use "process"?

2009-06-15 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 clemens fischer wrote: > On Thu-2009/04/30-16:47 clemens fischer wrote: > >> Recently I needed a screen command sequence more complex than the >> usual key "bind" or "stuff". I turned to "process [key]", as the man >> page said: "command can be used

Re: how to use "process"?

2009-06-15 Thread Gerald Young
On Monday 15 June 2009 17:02:23 clemens fischer wrote: > Would it be true to say that "process" is like "stuff", but it handles > text in registers instead of literal text? Yes, but "process" handles the text "as if it had been typed in from the user’s keyboard." Keep that in mind. > say I have:

Re: how to use "process"?

2009-06-15 Thread clemens fischer
On Thu-2009/04/30-16:47 clemens fischer wrote: > Recently I needed a screen command sequence more complex than the > usual key "bind" or "stuff". I turned to "process [key]", as the man > page said: "command can be used to bind multiple actions to a single > key". Would it be true to say that "p

ANN: eventlogger for screen backticks

2009-06-15 Thread clemens fischer
Hi, I've written a program called eventlogger.c[1] based on the newer posix message queues[2]. It simply sets up a queue[3] and lets you place one line of text into it. In the other mode, without giving it text, it will read out what's in the queue, highest priority messages first. I use it to