Re: Defining custom screen commands?

[Dun Peal]

Yes, thanks Gerald, this is an elegant solution.

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Jim Mahood <address@hidden> wrote:
> Nice solution combined with tab completion.  :-)  Thanks Gerald!
>
> On Jul 31, 2014 12:45 PM, "Gerald Young" <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> What I do is have a keystroke binding which types in this:
>> C-a :source /home/user/Screen/
>>
>> But it doesn't actually submit the command. Then I can manually type in
>> the
>> command I want to run, like so:
>> C-a :source /home/user/Screen/command
>>
>> And hit enter to execute. The command is actually a screen script stored
>> at
>> that location. So adding new commands is matter just of adding new script
>> files.
>>
>> Here's the actual binding:
>> bind ^L eval 'register z ":source /home/user/Screen/"' 'command' 'process
>> z'
>>
>> Regards,
>> Gerald
>>
>> On Thursday, July 31, 2014 10:35:31 AM Dun Peal wrote:
>> > Folks,
>> >
>> > There's a sequence of screen operations that I execute every once in a
>> > while. I can use `bind` and `eval` to execute it by keystroke, but it
>> > is not used commonly enough to justify a keystroke binding.
>> >
>> > Is there a way to define it such that I can execute it by running a
>> > custom command on the `C-a :` command line?
>> >
>> > So for example, I'd define it as custom command `foo`, such that when
>> > I hit `C-a :` then type `foo` and press enter, the sequence of screen
>> > commands gets executed.
>> >
>> > Thanks, D.
>> >
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