Re: [screen-devel] How to submit patches?

[Felix Rosencrantz]

Hi Janos,

Not sure why there is no response.  These sound like interesting
features.  It might be worth posting the patches to
address@hidden and see if you get a response there.

In a recent mail thread started by the Debian maintainer of screen,
one of the two main developers of the screen code, reported that he
was not actively developing the code,  He also mentioned the other
developer was only semi-active.  A beta-version of screen was released
in February, but there has been little activity since.

I suspect the two main developers are busy living life.  Though aren't
comfortable enough opening up the codeline to others.  They have
incorporated some patches or used the patches as a basis for code
they've written.

So, if you are willing, put your code out there.

I like the ability to have more than just 10 screen labels, so it is
easy to move between screens.  I don't understand your second feature
exactly, but from what I understand,
it also sounds useful.

-FR.


On 9/30/07, Janos Barbero <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've written some patches to screen over the past year to make it work
> more to my taste. Perhaps some of these might be useful, but I don't
> know how to package them up. Could you please give pointers on that?
> Thanks.
>
> Anyway, the patches are:
> 1. Ability to choose alphanumeric window "numbers", much like irssi's
> window handling. This is implemented with a "labels" command and
> keybindings assigning C-a <letter> to select <letter> where
> appropriate. For instance, they are defined in my screenrc as:
> labels          "0123456789qwetuiofgjvbmERTYUIOPDGHJKLCVBM"
> For each of them, there is also a line, such as:
> bind q select q
> The missing letters are the ones I actually use for screen commands.
> This lets me toggle between windows very quickly...
>
> 2. A mode like mapdefault but persistent; this is so I can launch
> embedded screen instances on other hosts and interact with them
> naturally. This is implemented with two commands, mapoff and mapon.
> Relevant lines:
> defflow off
> bindkey         "^S"            eval "mapoff" "escape ^Ss" "echo \"No
> mappings applied (use \\\^S\\\^Q to revert)\""
> bind            "^Q"            eval "mapon"  "escape ^Aa" "echo \"All
> mappings applied\""
> I just type ^S to enter the mode (but I can still use ^S as an escape
> character if I need to on my local session) and ^S^Q to exit it.
>
> Well, if you don't consider the patches useful, don't bother to give
> pointers on how to submit them. ;) By the way, they're all for
> 4.00.02.
>
> Janos
>
>
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