[screen-devel] [bug #47640] Create a GNU Screen API for other programs to build upon

[anonymous]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47640>

                 Summary: Create a GNU Screen API for other programs to build
upon
                 Project: GNU Screen
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Thu 07 Apr 2016 10:49:38 AM UTC
                Category: Feature Request
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: None
           Fixed Release: None
         Planned Release: None
           Work Required: None

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Details:

Currently many graphical terminals are very limited in its capabilites if
compared to terminal multiplexers. If features are introduced they often built
on top of their own implementation. This leads to many programs reinventing
screen like functionality. However this move is completely unnecessary if
screen would provide a mere C API for other programs. This is not something
only I imagined but was excessivly discussed on many forum threads and even
got its own GNOME wiki entry [1]. Especially notable is the bug report which
calls for such an API [2].

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeTerminal/ScreenIntegration
[2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332148




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