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Re: [screen-devel] PATCH: new 'if' primitive
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Steve Kemp |
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Re: [screen-devel] PATCH: new 'if' primitive |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:26:59 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) |
On Tue Oct 21, 2008 at 12:21:48 -0700, Micah Cowan wrote:
> IMO, this would be much more useful if it could also perform basic tests
> on env var values (this could eliminate the need for your hostname and
> username primitives), and against the version number of screen.
Those would be good enhancements, yes.
What kind of syntax would you consider? I'd expect something like:
if $USER -cmp "steve"
if $UID -lt 1000
It would also be nice to have backtick support, such that
"if `uname -a` -cmp "2.6.17" ..
Adding such support would be easy, once the syntax was defined.
> BTW, are you aware of Sadrul's efforts to introduce scriptability to
> screen via Lua? http://www.pidgin.im/~sadrul/pp/scripting-lua/
No, I've not seen that. Thanks.
Steve
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