Re: action upon re-attach

[John Davidorff Pell]

In the last hour I put together an almost working patch, which I 
decided Sucks Balls™ at the last moment due to the unfriendly nature of 
multidimensional arrays (and my lack of sleep). Basically I can do a 
single word command, but I want more.

I was trying to implement it in such a way that the message is sent to 
the screen /immediately/ before attach, so it begins (more or less) 
/at/ attach. This, however, is just a coded example of "screen -X 
something; screen -r", which has undesirable results (any previously 
attached session gets the command, and switches windows, and if -xRR 
the new screen does NOT move to the new window... Go Figure™).

I'm thinking that the best way to make this work as desired is to build 
it into the attach routine (not the attach() function, but the back-end 
"I'm getting attached to" routine, which I have yet to look at).

Anyone out there want to offer some tips... or code? :-D

JP

P.S. Are pretty patches to screen being accepted? If so, I would be 
happy to convert the old style function headers to proper form. Do I 
need to patch against CVS? (if so, where is it???)


On 23 Sep 2004, at 12:45, Tom Huckstep wrote:

> Hello John,
>
> I read your post to the screen-users mailing list about "re-attach
> and open new window" functionality in screen.
>
> I'd be interested in exactly the same thing.  Have you had any further
> ideas?
>
> Tom


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