On Mon, 13 Apr 2020, dan d. wrote:
I can run the shell script but not an alias or function with the exec. Is
there a way to run an alias or function with exec?
I don't know what exactly you are doing (I think the program's "exec" function
has nothing to do with screen),
but the availability
On 2020-04-13 20:33,
dan d. put forth the proposition:
>
> Thanks to those who provided suggestions on this topic.
>
> To recap, using a keybinding for the exec command to run a shell script
> didn't work with the stuff command.
> I wanted stuff to send keystrokes to a program to act as a macro,
Thanks to those who provided suggestions on this topic.
To recap, using a keybinding for the exec command to run a shell script didn't
work with the stuff command.
I wanted stuff to send keystrokes to a program to act as a macro, it was in the
shell script.
Doing some tinkering, if I ran the
On 2020-04-11 11:28,
dan d. put forth the proposition:
>
> I recently recieved help here with the eval command to attach a stack of
> commands to a key binding.
> In one version i use the exec command on a key binding to call a shell script
> containing the screen commands, it works perfectly.
>
Starting lynx and running "stuff o" from the screen command mode (^A :)
brings up the options page for me. The problem might be higher up the
stack?
If you want to dig in further, strace should let you watch the keystrokes
it as you are manually testing, I would strace both the screen process and
I recently recieved help here with the eval command to attach a stack of
commands to a key binding.
In one version i use the exec command on a key binding to call a shell script
containing the screen commands, it works perfectly.
This made it easy to experiment by just changing the script file.
