Re: creating command aliases

[Conrad O'Dea]

On 25 Apr 2006, at 07:37, Conrad O'Dea wrote:
> On 25 Apr 2006, at 03:19, Buddy Burden wrote:
> > >     alias sshhost screen -t address@hidden host
> >
> > Looks like a job for your favorite shell to me.  In my own shell-- 
> > tcsh--the exact command you give above would work perfectly from  
> > the command line, or in my .tcshrc.  Am I missing something here?
>
> that works perfectly.  I didn't realise that invoking screen inside  
> screen caused windows to be added to the parent session.

actually, there's a limitation with this.  If I am in a window which  
contains a remote shell, then I have to
switch to a window which has a local shell.  Not a big deal but a lot  
of my shells are remote.  Having
screen handle the alias would allow it to work irrespective of the  
context.

Conrad