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has caused the Debian Bug report #37475,
regarding screen: Feature Request: exclude windows from 'next', more-letter
commands defineable
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Package: screen
Version: 3.7.4-6
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
I usually have a syslog and an exim log open in screen windows. These
log windows always have the same number and are accessed by number ex-
clusively. However, they also show up when I cycle through the windows
using the 'next' command. There should be an option to exclude a window
from the cycle that is used with 'next'.
Also, I'd like to be able to bind commands or macros to commands instead
of letters like:
|bind 'msyslog' screen -t syslog@$HOSTNAME less /var/log/syslog/syslog
This "bind" command would prevent me from using m as a letter command
but would increase the possibility of mnemonic names if one has a lot
of these definitions.
A possibility to define one's own commands to be called after ^a: would
be fine, too.
Unfortunately, the upstream maintainers did not answer e-mail sent six
weeks ago. Maybe you as the Debian maintainer have a better connection
upstream. I'd appreciate if you could pass my ideas up to the correct
people.
Greetings
Marc
-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.1
Kernel Version: Linux torres 2.0.36 #5 Sun Apr 4 15:47:37 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
Versions of the packages screen depends on:
ii libc6 2.0.7.19981211 GNU C Library: shared libraries
ii ncurses3.4 1.9.9g-8.11 Video terminal manipulation - shared librari
ii ncurses-term 4.2-3 Additional terminal type definitions
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tags 37475 + wontfix
thanks
Hi,
After review, I’m closing this as wontfix.
The report asks for two substantial UI/behavior changes:
- per-window exclusion from next/prev cycling
- named multi-character commands after the command prefix
Since you've already raised this upstream with no response, I presume
they have no interest in implementing.
Closing as wontfix.
Cheers,
Peter Dey
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