Screen + Expect

[Jonathan Martin]

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone has ever considered an integration of 
libexpect with screen (optional, of course), to control terminal 
sessions, or even screen itself? i can see this being useful to do 
simple macro-type operations, like hit enter every 5 minutes to keep an 
ssh session open, or send an alert when certain output appears in a 
screen that's not currently being viewed.

Although I have hacked a few lines here and there in the screen code, I 
am no way knowledgeable enough about either code bases to know how they 
could would fit together, what type of glue code would be necessary, or 
even if it could work. But I was wondering if this has ever come up 
before, or in general what people thought of the idea.

Thanks!
-Jon

BTW, to the programmers, maintainers, and all the people who've 
contributed to screen, thanks. It's the single most useful program I've 
ever used. The main screen process I re-attach to currently has been 
running since Jul 14. :)