Re: [screen-devel] patch to change autoaka behavior

[Micah Cowan]

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Erik Osheim wrote:
> For the last several years I've been using a patched version of screen.
> Currently, the default screen's autoaka feature renames a window to the
> first word whenever a command is run. For instance, "vim FOO" renames
> the window to "vim".
> 
> My coworkers and I don't find this particularly useful, since often one
> is running the same command in different windows with different
> arguments. My patch makes the entire command the title.
> 
> I would be open to a config toggle, if some people prefer the old
> behavior (so far I haven't met anyone of this persuasion). Also, I
> could imagine a "max length" setting, although I haven't needed one. I
> don't actually know how to write code to use the config file, but if
> someone gave me a small sample I could definitely add that to the patch
> if necessary.
> 
> Anyway, here's the patch. Does it seem like something that could make
> it into git?

Could be; though the ideal for me would be to take something like
Sadrul's lua extensibility stuff, and make it much more tweakable.

I would definitely want a toggle or something to put this in, though:
some folks prefer current behavior.

For my part, the ideal would be to default to the current behavior, but
for some commands switch to the first non-option argument (only). That's
why programmable support would be nice.

Though, really, I tend to name my windows based on high-level purpose,
like "screen-build" or "wget-test", so I never use autoaka.

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/
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