On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:14:51 -0500 Rob Landley <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 06/18/2012 09:48 AM, Jens Staal wrote: > > 2012/6/18 Rob Landley <[email protected]>: > >> No, they have an implementation of screen. The first one I used > >> (circa 1993) was from Sun. > >> > >> The wonkypedia article says the first pair of maintainers handed > >> it over to a second pair of maintainers who handed it over to the > >> gnu project. So it's a bit like Gold and Patch and Grub and EGCS > >> so on: somebody wrote a thing that worked and the Gnu project > >> managed to take it over and plaster their name all over it as the > >> versions they ship bloat and lose reliability. > > > > perhaps > > http://tmux.sourceforge.net/ > > could be an interesting alternative > > Doing a "less" or "vi" implementation is 90% of doing screen. You > have a text buffer that displays on the screen. You write at the > current cursor position to update that text buffer. > > That's pretty much what screen and less both do. I'd like to get them > to share infrastructure to do it, which means writing some kind of > lib/buffer.c. That's what I'm working on, common infrastructure for such purposes. -- A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
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