Re: Is there any way I can split long lines in .screenrc?

[Micah Cowan]

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Chris Jones wrote:
> Couldn't find anything in the usual repositories.
> 
> Here's my current hardstatus line (length=190):
> 
> hardstatus alwayslastline "%{+r wk}%H %{+b yk}%0` %{+b wk} %1` | %2` %3` |%4` 
> %{+b wk}| %{+b wk}%l%{+b wk} |%{+b gk} %n %t %{+b wk}| %{+b wk}%W %=  %{+b 
> wk} %D %m/%d/%y %c:%s | %{+b yk} %5`"
> 
> I tried using a '\' backslash escape as in:
> 
> hardstatus alwayslastline "%{+r wk}%H %{+b yk}%0` %{+b wk} %1` \
>     | %2` %3` |%4` %{+b wk}| %{+b wk}%l%{+b wk} \
>     |%{+b gk} %n %t %{+b wk}| %{+b wk}%W %= %{+b wk} \
>     %D %m/%d/%y %c:%s | %{+b yk} %5`"

Yeah, screen doesn't allow split lines (or lines whose lengths are
greater than 2048 bytes). Nor does it allow combining lines (say, with a
semicolon)

> If .screenrc's syntax does not allow splitting lines .. is there a
> workaround?

I dunno... you could set it in an environment variable (careful with the
quoting) and use screen's env var replacement. Or you could write a
preprocesor that recombines split lines (and re-splits them for editing,
I guess).

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/
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