Re: [screen-devel] Extend windows command, introduce Xx string escape

[Amadeusz Sławiński]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 10:30:25AM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm happy to see something moving, but please don't make screen a
> second tmux.
> 
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 10:13:06AM +0100, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote:
> > * rewrite command line parsing (tmux has it thought out pretty well)
> > 
> > screen new
> > screen attach [-f --force] [pid] (or first free one) 
> > screen detach [-f --force] pid
> > screen reattach [-f --force] [pid
> > screen newdisplay [-n --new-window]
> > screen query windows|displays|sessions
> 
> Especially leave the commandline interface backwards compatible as far
> as possible, i.e. continue to use -X (or add a new option) for passing
> commands to screen.

This was idea for stuff in my tree, it's certainly bad idea to
change flags in upstream, especially as old as screen ;)

It probably also means that some changes I did to hardstatus escape
codes may need rethinking.

Amadeusz