On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 02:33:42PM -0700, Paul Kolano wrote: > Just thought some of you might be interested in a new project I > started on Sourceforge called Screenwm. It's basically a single Perl > executable and a set of key bindings that adds some new capabilities > to Screen. It is meant to work with Bill Pursell's excellent vertical > split patch (although it also works without).
FYI: I'm just adding vertical split support to screen. Seems to work fine, what's currently broken is the "resize" command. > The major features are: > > 1. Multiple region layouts within a single session > > As a simple example, you might have one layout that has 2 horizontally > split regions and another that has 2 vertically split regions. With > Screenwm, you can switch between them instantaneously using > layout-specific versions of the next, prev, other, and select > commands. Layouts can be arbitrarily complex. > > 2. Vi-like movement within complex layouts > > When using vertical splits, it might take any number of focus up/down > commands to reach a region that is right next to the current one. > Screenwm has bindings for left/right movement as well as up/down > movement that automatically calculate region boundaries and move > directly to the region in the given direction with a single key press. > > 3. Window associations by region > > Essentially, each region is treated as if it has its own set of > windows associated with it. Thus, even though you might have 30 > windows in a given Screen session, the next, prev, and select commands > will cycle through only the windows that are associated with the > current region instead of all 30 of them. I find this more natural > than the default model, especially with vertical splits, as it is > essentially equivalent to multiple xterms (or whatever) side by side > with each running its own instance of Screen (but with no need to use > the mouse! :) ). > > 4. Control of remote/embedded sessions using standard key bindings > > Since using different escape keys for remote Screen sessions is a > pain, this allows windows to be tagged as a remote/embedded session, > after which commands sent to the local session will be forwarded on > automatically when appropriate. For example, when working in a tagged > window, and you want to create a new window in the remote session, you > just use ^ac as normal instead of ^aac. You can customize the > behavior to forward on only the commands that you want forwarded. > Basically, this feature allows you to treat multiple local and remote > Screen sessions as a single seamlessly integrated session. > > Anyway, check it out if you're interested at: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/screenwm Sounds nice, I'll have a look at it. Cheers, Michael. -- Michael Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] main(_){while(_=~getchar())putchar(~_-1/(~(_|32)/13*2-11)*13);} _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
