Re: Opening a window in the background?

[davidcollins001]

On 18/07/2008, roi h <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to open a new window without switching to it?
>
> I often would like to start a command in a background window, and only
> switch to it later, but I haven't found anything in the manual about it.
>
> Thanks, Roi
>

I don't have a solution for you, but I think it will be going in the
right direction.

A while back I tried to find how to open a new window in the same
directory (before I realised "screen" would do that!). I imagine that
you could use it to script screen for what you want with: open window,
execute prog, select prev window.

You can execute it with C-a : then type exec screen-utils

It is on the internet somewhere, and possibly on the mailing list too,
but I am not too sure where it was a while ago I looked for it.

David

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