[screen-devel] [bug #32801] Run backtick commands asynchronously

[Maarten Billemont]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?32801>

                 Summary: Run backtick commands asynchronously
                 Project: GNU Screen
            Submitted by: lhunath
            Submitted on: Wed 16 Mar 2011 09:24:31 AM GMT
                Category: User Interface
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.0.3
           Fixed Release: None
         Planned Release: None
           Work Required: None

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Details:

Currently, any backtick commands you execute within screen hang the terminal
emulator.

Which means, if you backtick execute a command every so often that takes more
than a few milliseconds to execute, it gets insanely irritating as your
terminal stalls while using it every so often.

There should be no delay whatsoever.  To do that, the backtick command would
need to be executed asychronously and the output would have to be read in and
used as soon as the command's process has completed, which could be a few
milliseconds or a few minutes later.




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