Re: [screen-devel] PATCH: new 'if' primitive

[Steve Kemp]

On Tue Oct 21, 2008 at 12:21:48 -0700, Micah Cowan wrote:

> IMO, this would be much more useful if it could also perform basic tests
> on env var values (this could eliminate the need for your hostname and
> username primitives), and against the version number of screen.

  Those would be good enhancements, yes.

  What kind of syntax would you consider?  I'd expect something like:

    if $USER -cmp "steve"
    if $UID  -lt 1000

  It would also be nice to have backtick support, such that
 "if `uname -a` -cmp "2.6.17" ..


  Adding such support would be easy, once the syntax was defined.

> BTW, are you aware of Sadrul's efforts to introduce scriptability to
> screen via Lua? http://www.pidgin.im/~sadrul/pp/scripting-lua/

  No, I've not seen that.  Thanks.

Steve
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