Re: action upon re-attach

[John Davidorff Pell]

Using my mad hacker skills (that's a joke), i've come up with the 
following commands:
screen -S "`screen -ls | grep tached | awk '{print $1}' | head -n1`" -X 
screen
screen -S "`screen -ls | grep tached | awk '{print $1}' | head -n1`" 
-xRR

This ensures that if I have multiple screens available, the command is 
sent to the right one (first one, which may not be the right one...) 
and then I re-attach to that same one. Problem: if the screen is 
already attached to, then the previously attached screen switches to 
the newly created window. The newly attached screen, starts up in the 
previously active window... not the newly created one...

What would it take to implement a "re-attach and open new window" flag? 
Could someone point me to the right function/file (and maybe a few tips 
on the archaic code?). I think I'm capable enough to come up with a 
patch (that won't meet sven's standards) that would work, but last time 
I started looking through screen's code I got a headache... I'm 
thinking that I'd allow for -X /and/ -r... but that already means 
something... perhaps different meaning for -r/-R when used with -X?

JP

On 19 Sep 2004, at 07:37, Phil!Gregory wrote:

> * John Davidorff Pell <address@hidden> [2004-09-19 00:31 -0700]:
> > What I would like to do is create a new window, with a new shell in 
> > it,
> > every time I re-attach.
>
> You can accomplish this with a script that runs the two commands:
>
>   screen -X screen
>   screen -r
>
> The problem is that the reattach will not go to the newly created 
> window
> on its own; it'll display the screen you last detached from, unless you
> use -p to preselect a window.  This might work:
>
>   WINDOW=newscreen.$$
>   screen -X screen -t $WINDOW
>   screen -r -p $WINDOW
>
> but only if you don't have your shell changing window titles for you.
> (Mine does.)
>
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