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Re: how to detach multi-display session from one single display (emacscl
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Torsten Scheck |
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Re: how to detach multi-display session from one single display (emacsclient question) |
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Wed, 15 Mar 2006 20:57:30 +0100 |
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Gregor Zattler wrote on 03/14/2006 10:00 PM:
[...]
> I use this simple line of bash script:
>
> { emacsclient --alternate-editor "emacs -nw" "$@" ; \
> screen -d emacsserver ; } &>/dev/null & screen -x emacsserver
I don't really get what you are doing here, as I don't have emacs at
hand and as I don't know what emacsclient does. Anyway, I assume this is
what you want to do (instead of screen -d emacsserver):
screen -X detach
[...]
> this script several times from several windows for different files I
> will see the last opened file in all windows (that's not optimal
> but o.k.). When done with editing one file (via ^x# aka
[...]
As for the window control: I have a weird setup, which works fine for
me. See below for details. Maybe it helps. (I've sent this summary some
time ago, but I guess the message got never approved by the moderator as
I wasn't list member then.)
Cheers,
Torsten
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Script for taking full advantage of screen in X environment
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:55:26 +0200
From: Torsten Scheck <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Dear fellow screen users:
My working environment is X with lots of xterms (in my case urxvt) and
I'm quite happy with this. But there have been many occasions, when I
wished that I were in a screen session, but I wasn't. To solve this
problem I use a script, which creates a new window in a shared screen
session for each new xterm. The script is bound to a keyboard shortcut
of my window manager (ion3).
/usr/local/bin/multiscreen
---------------8<---------------8<---------------
#!/bin/sh
# tested with debian
screen -x multiscreen -X eval "screen -t $$" other \
&& x-terminal-emulator -e screen -x multiscreen -p $$ \
|| x-terminal-emulator -e screen -S multiscreen
---------------8<---------------8<---------------
Rough explanation:
If there is no session named "multiscreen" then
Create it in a new xterm.
else
Send to the existing session commands to create a new screen-window
with a unique title and switch back to previous window.
Create a new xterm and display the newly created screen window.
It works for me: I can use screen features, when I need them. Otherwise
screen is transparent to my X working environment. (Except for the
missing xterm scrollback buffer, but I prefer screen's scrollback
history buffer anyway.)
As I haven't been a screen power user in the past, I'd be interested, if
there are better ways to accomplish screen integration in X.
Cheers,
Torsten
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