Re: hardstatus line / startup foo

[Mikael Schönenberg]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 02:08:51PM -0600, Tony Perrie wrote:

> Is there a way to make different color'd status lines and/or source
> different .bashrc files when I create a new screen?
> 
> Like screen 0 has a white status line, screen 1 is blue and screen0 
> sources .bashrc0, etc...

I can't comment on your first question - I've never managed to assemble
enough interest to actually look all that much at what can be done with
the hardstatus line.

However, when it comes to sourcing different .bashrc files, having a
very simple test in your .bashrc making use of the WINDOW environment
variable will probably do the trick:

----- .bashrc -------------
# This will source ~/.bashrc_1 for window 1, ~/.bashrc_2 for window 2 etc.
# If no window specific .bashrc exists, pick a default one.
if [ -e $HOME/.bashrc_$WINDOW ]; then
    . $HOME/.bashrc_$WINDOW
else
    . $HOME/.bashrc_default
fi
------------------------EOF

I use a similar piece in my own .bashrc for keeping different bash
histories in different windows:

----- my .bashrc ----------
_HIST_DIR=$HOME/storage/log/bash
if [ "$WINDOW" != "" ]; then
    export HISTFILE=$_HIST_DIR/history_screen$WINDOW
else
    export HISTFILE=$_HIST_DIR/history
fi
------------------------EOF

Hope this helps :)

-- 
Mikael Schönenberg <address@hidden>