Re: [screen-devel] Screen bloated?

[Juergen Weigert]

On Sep 29, 07 12:09:36 -0500, David Douthitt wrote:
> Screen has an amazing amount of capabilities, and folks keep adding
> more - and the new features are getting more and more esoteric.
> 
> I'd like more in the way of trimming down - slimming down - or perhaps
> a focus on ways to trim it down.  The file-descriptor / filter feature
> is a good one to strip down - and personally, I think the vertical
> scroll is another.
> 
> Is there a standard user-friendly way to strip down the executable
> during compilation?  The busybox method (list of capabilities) comes
> to mind, as does screen's current list of capabilities.  Another
> feature comes to mind: the way Apache and Vim report on what their
> capabilities are when asked (or started).

Screen is still much smaller than Apache or Vim. 
Currently we have compile time configuration via config.h .
Not as userfriendly as it could be, but I assume that this 
is sufficient for most cases.

> The way this is going, Lua will wind up embedded before too long....
> (uhoh, there I've gone and said it....)

<joking>
Oh no! I want a perl interpreter in screen!
</joking>

        cheers,
                JW.

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