Re: Can a program create a new window ?

2005-11-08 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Michael C. Toren wrote: On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:25:30PM -0500, Phil!Gregory wrote: it might not have had anything to do with the screen interface. ircii (and epic, bitchx, and friends) create multiple windows using the curses library; screen isn't involved in any way.

Re: Can a program create a new window ?

2005-11-08 Thread Nicolas Vigier
Dan Mahoney, System Admin said: On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Michael C. Toren wrote: On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:25:30PM -0500, Phil!Gregory wrote: it might not have had anything to do with the screen interface. ircii (and epic, bitchx, and friends) create multiple windows using the curses library;

Re: Can a program create a new window ?

2005-11-08 Thread Nicolas Vigier
Gerhard Siegesmund said: Hello Nicolas Hmm, interesting. I didn't know that, thanks. It means creating a patch for mutt or slrn to have a new window for each message I want to send is possible. Thanks, I'll try with that. Maybe the attached script may be of some help to you. I don't use

Re: Can a program create a new window ?

2005-11-08 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Nicolas Vigier wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin said: On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Michael C. Toren wrote: On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:25:30PM -0500, Phil!Gregory wrote: it might not have had anything to do with the screen interface. ircii (and epic, bitchx, and friends) create

Re: Can a program create a new window ?

2005-11-08 Thread Phil!Gregory
* Michael C. Toren [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-11-08 01:29 -0500]: ircii (and epic, bitchx, and friends) create multiple windows using the curses library; screen isn't involved in any way. epic also supports what it calls screens -- completely separate display areas (devices?) that share a a

Re: Can a program create a new window ?

2005-11-08 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Phil!Gregory wrote: * Michael C. Toren [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-11-08 01:29 -0500]: ircii (and epic, bitchx, and friends) create multiple windows using the curses library; screen isn't involved in any way. epic also supports what it calls screens -- completely separate

Can a program create a new window ?

2005-11-07 Thread Nicolas Vigier
Hello, When I am using a textmode program such as mutt or slrn, it often happens that while I started answering a message, I want to come back to the message list and display the message I'm answering (or an other one), but I don't want to lose the message I started writting. Using a graphical

Re: Can a program create a new window ?

2005-11-07 Thread Buddy Burden
Nicolas, Using screen it is possible to have many virtual windows in a term, but as far as I know, creating a new window is only possible using a key binding (like C-a c). Is there a way that a program running in a screen can create a new window, and display something inside ? Sure. If you

Re: Can a program create a new window ?

2005-11-07 Thread Nicolas Vigier
Buddy Burden said: Sure. If you type, say, screen fred while you're already inside screen, that creates a new window running the command fred. For instance, I do this all the time (mostly from in my .screenrc, but it works at the command line too): screen -t top top

Re: Can a program create a new window ?

2005-11-07 Thread Gerhard Siegesmund
Hello Nicolas Hmm, interesting. I didn't know that, thanks. It means creating a patch for mutt or slrn to have a new window for each message I want to send is possible. Thanks, I'll try with that. Maybe the attached script may be of some help to you. I don't use it though, as I loose the

Re: Can a program create a new window ?

2005-11-07 Thread Will Maier
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:06:30PM +0100, Nicolas Vigier wrote: When I am using a textmode program such as mutt or slrn, it often happens that while I started answering a message, I want to come back to the message list and display the message I'm answering (or an other one), but I don't want

Re: Can a program create a new window ?

2005-11-07 Thread Michael C. Toren
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:25:30PM -0500, Phil!Gregory wrote: it might not have had anything to do with the screen interface. ircii (and epic, bitchx, and friends) create multiple windows using the curses library; screen isn't involved in any way. This is the same way in which vim (:new) and