URL:
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?35499>
Summary: Adding visibility to vertical splits
Project: GNU Screen
Submitted by: mrbrown8
Submitted on: Thu 09 Feb 2012 08:36:34 PM MST
Category: Feature Request
Severity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - Normal
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release: Cur Dev Sources
Fixed Release: None
Planned Release: Later
Work Required: None
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Details:
When it comes to splitting, I've found that having some sort of visible "line"
or division helps me to see the boundaries of the splits. For horizontal
splits, I've relied on :caption to provide that. The caption can be as simple
as
:caption string "%{wr} %="
and that would be sufficient for me. I would be able to see a contrasting
division between the regions regardless of my xterm's text color or background
color.
However, I have problems visualizing vertical splits. If my xterm's text color
is black and the background color is white, vertical splits show as a black
band. However, I'm most comfortable using white text against a black
background. My dislike is that vertical splits still show as a black band, and
against a black background it makes it difficult to see.
As a wish I would like to specify a character, most preferably an ascii pipe
"|", that can be repeated up and down the split. Perhaps the :caption or
:rendition command can be overloaded to accomodate this.
I would be willing to help code this if I had an idea where a char can be
printed in between regions. Thanks in advance for everyone's consideration.
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