Re: [screen-devel] Move hosting to GitHub? (was: Re: Extend windows command, introduce Xx string escape)

[Rafal Maszkowski]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 03:08:39PM +0100, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote:
> On more pragmatic note, I've a lot of changes in my repository
> (https://github.com/amade/screen - look at devel branch as it's more
> recent) so I would like to avoid porting them back to "official" one.
> Though I will understand if people are hesitant to use it.
> Anyway some of changes include:
> - hardstatus on top (that's where it all started ;)

Several years ago I wanted to add to screen a patch adding the sockdir
option run-time configuration option and status option. Maybe they could
be included in some form?

sockdir local|shared
        shared means that the sockets directory may be shared between
        various hosts and screen -wipe command will NOT wipe non-local
        sockets.
status [ top | up | down | bottom ] [ left | right ]
        The status window by default is in bottom-left corner. This
        command can move status messages to any corner of the screen.
        top is the same as up, down is the same as bottom.

Status covering left side, especially bottom left is very annoying
because it covers the prompt and e.g. with visual bell I have to wait to
see the contents beind this visual signal. The distributions compile the
default status position. I used to recompile but it is tedious. I would
be much easier just to keep the favourite settings in the configuration
file.

The patches are in ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/private/rzm/patches/
The last tested one is screen-4.0.2-rzm2.diff .
screen-4.0.3-rzm2.diff and screen-4.1.0.2014-03-24.rzm2.diff are
regenerated from screen-4.0.2-rzm2.diff but not yet tested.

R.
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