On 2020-04-11 11:28, dan d. <dandun...@gmail.com> put forth the proposition: > > I recently recieved help here with the eval command to attach a stack of > commands to a key binding. > In one version i use the exec command on a key binding to call a shell script > containing the screen commands, it works perfectly. > This made it easy to experiment by just changing the script file. > -- > I thought the stuff command which seemed to me to allow making macros for any > program with key bindings and shell scripts also. > That screen command can send keyboord commands to a program instead of shell > commands. > I have run into a problem. I set up a shell script using the stuff command > to experiment. > I use lynx a text only web browser; I wanted a stuff macro which starts with > entering an "o" to enter the options selection section of it. > The idea was to allow a series of lynx commands to change an option on the > fly, the "o" was the first of them. > > The "o" appeared on the lynx program screen as though entered as typed text; > it did not initiate entry into the options section as it does manually > I tried it in a text editor, the "o" appeared as though entered manually.
It would help to see your `stack' of commands really. If you're using running numerous commands that include `exec's, beware, because I've found that screen (4.6.2 anyway) doesn't wait for exec to finish, and will run the next command in the list immediately. I haven't found a way around this non-blockingness, and even using `sleep' doesn't seem to have any effect. Your best bet is probably to put all the commands you need into a single shell script and run that instead. You can specify arguments to it if necessary, and then use $1 $2 etc. in the script. -- Dave The antibloat squad! For those interested in no bloat, minimal desktop Linux gopher://tty1.uk/1/?minimal-linux http://tty1.uk/minimal-linux #minimallinux @ chat.freenode.net
