Scripting Support for Screen

2008-07-24 Thread Sadrul Habib Chowdhury
Hi. I started working on a lua script loader for screen last night. I am quite happy with the progress so far. I would like to know what people think about this kind of work. I discussed about this briefly with Micah last night, and he also thought discussing this in the list would be useful. I

Re: [screen-devel] Scripting Support for Screen

2008-07-24 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Weiner wrote: The trend I would like to see is not just extending screen with a powerful language but reducing the C code where possible by this language. Sort of like it's done with emacs (only that emacs was probably written to this

Re: [screen-devel] Scripting Support for Screen

2008-07-24 Thread Tom Scogland
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Scogland wrote: While I'm relatively new here I thought I'd throw in my 2 cents on the matter. Having everything doable via scripting sounds good, but it should be a

Re: [screen-devel] Scripting Support for Screen

2008-07-24 Thread Mark Eichin
Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Micah Cowan wrote: To be honest, implementing a Screen within Emacs makes almost as much sense as giving Screen Emacs-like scriptability Come to think of it, that functionality more-or-less already exists; M-x term within Emacs pretty much fits the

Two little features (and a bounty?)

2008-07-24 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all, I need two features added to screen, but I'm not a coder. I can (and have) discussed on this list, as well as having seen these features justified and explained on mailing lists before, but I don't believe they work at this time. 1) Make printing work. And by that I mean make it

Re: [screen-devel] Scripting Support for Screen

2008-07-24 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Weiner wrote: Hi, Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Micah Cowan wrote: To be honest, implementing a Screen within Emacs makes almost as much sense as giving Screen Emacs-like scriptability Come to think of it, that functionality

Re: Two little features (and a bounty?)

2008-07-24 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Tom Scogland wrote: What do you mean about the mouse? It already sends mouse codes through from a terminal... Using gnome-terminal under linux, to a FreeBSD 6.2 system. Mouse works. I

Re: Two little features (and a bounty?)

2008-07-24 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (My Thunderbird screws up the quoting, yours appear deeper than mine.) Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Micah Cowan wrote: Perhaps he's referring to the fact that it won't work until the application requests mouse tracking,

Re: Two little features (and a bounty?)

2008-07-24 Thread Thomas Adam
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:43:24 -0700 Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been successfully using both Emacs and Vim under screen with mouse support. Both required configuration adjustments to make it happen. Can you share this information, please? Sounds interesting. :) -- Thomas Adam

Re: Two little features (and a bounty?)

2008-07-24 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Adam wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:43:24 -0700 Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been successfully using both Emacs and Vim under screen with mouse support. Both required configuration adjustments to make it happen. Can you

Re: [screen-devel] Scripting Support for Screen

2008-07-24 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 02:16:30PM -0700, Micah Cowan wrote: I'm not sure I agree on people know them well for Haskell. Scheme /Lisp probably has a larger developer base than Haskell does. Last time I looked, on Freenode, #haskell has around double the number of people that #scheme has. While

Re: [screen-devel] Scripting Support for Screen

2008-07-24 Thread Tom Scogland
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Trent W. Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 02:16:30PM -0700, Micah Cowan wrote: I'm not sure I agree on people know them well for Haskell. Scheme /Lisp probably has a larger developer base than Haskell does. Last time I looked, on

Re: Two little features (and a bounty?)

2008-07-24 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 06:39:47PM -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: I need two features added to screen, but I'm not a coder. I can (and have) discussed on this list, as well as having seen these features justified and explained on mailing lists before, but I don't believe they work at

Re: Two little features (and a bounty?)

2008-07-24 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Trent W. Buck wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 06:39:47PM -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: I need two features added to screen, but I'm not a coder. I can (and have) discussed on this list, as well as having seen these features justified and explained on mailing

Re: Two little features (and a bounty?)

2008-07-24 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Micah Cowan wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: That's unlikely to be true. The applications on the other end of the SSH tunnel requested the click events, first (based on the TERM env