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Take a portable terminal, go out there and patch in manually.

18th October 2008

I might regret this later, but until I recant:

This features several changes already, and a few more are pending.

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Tags: gnu screen, screen, tscreen. | 8 comments.

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  1. [gravitar] Charles Darke Submitted at 10:50:57 on 18 October 2008
    It will be interesting to see where this goes. At the moment, for me personally, there's nothing in the changes to make me switch, but I hope there soon will be!
  2. [author] Steve Kemp Submitted at 10:57:26 on 18 October 2008

    Thanks!

    I wonder what feature(s) or changes would make it a compelling alternative for you?

    I've got a few things queued up which are mostly to suit my tastes, but I've no idea what other people would be lured by..

  3. [gravitar] Omari Norman Submitted at 12:49:12 on 18 October 2008
    Something I have long wished screen had is the ability to vertically split the screen. I have seen various patches for this but I don't know what the upstream status of this is.
    Also, screen forgets my split setup when I detach and attach, although to be fair I haven't looked into this much and maybe there is a fix for it in the current screen.
  4. [author] Steve Kemp Submitted at 12:51:34 on 18 October 2008

    Omari - the virtical split is integrated with my changes.

    Saving and restoring layouts is probably a hard problem. I know the last time I saw it discussed the suggestion was "Use nested screens" which is suboptimal..

  5. [gravitar] Anonymous Submitted at 17:59:30 on 18 October 2008
    I'd love to see screen fixed so that multiuser screens work without making screen setuid root. That alone would get me to switch to tscreen.
    Also, http://bugs.debian.org/407584 seems like a trivial fix that would make screen less broken in a modern UTF-8 world.
  6. [author] Steve Kemp Submitted at 18:31:20 on 18 October 2008

    Anonymous - if $LC_ALL contains UTF-8 then "-U" doesn't need to be specified in tscreen.

    :)


  7. [gravitar] Saint Aardvark Submitted at 23:18:02 on 18 October 2008
    Dude! Vertical split? I'm in!
  8. [gravitar] anon Submitted at 14:47:14 on 19 October 2008
    A way to work with or like detachtty would be great, too. Then tscreen can be run inside or outside Emacs...