[screen-devel] [bug #52203] ESC and ^G in :windowlist select wrong window

[anonymous]

URL:
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                 Summary: ESC and ^G in :windowlist select wrong window
                 Project: GNU Screen
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Tue 10 Oct 2017 09:12:57 PM UTC
                Category: User Interface
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.3.1
           Fixed Release: None
         Planned Release: None
           Work Required: None

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Details:

It's some sort of -x multi-display mode interaction.  To reproduce:

1. Create file ~/.screen-windowlist-bug:

chdir /tmp
screen -t tmp
chdir /var
screen -t var
select 0

2. In one 'physical' terminal (for me: one tab of an `xfce4-terminal`), run:

$ screen -x -R -S screen-windowlist-bug -c ~/.screen-windowlist-bug -p 0

-- observe that shell pwd is /tmp

3. In another terminal (2nd tab of `xfce4-terminal`), run:

$ screen -x -R -S screen-windowlist-bug -c ~/.screen-windowlist-bug -p 1

-- observe that shell pwd is /var

4. In the first physical terminal, hit ^A " [ == ^A : windowlist -b ]

-- observe that the highlighted member of the window list is '1 var'; which is
probably reasonable, as it is the most recently activated window.

5. Without moving the highlight, hit ESC or ^G

-- observe that the first physical terminal (and thus both physical terminals)
is now displaying window 1 'var'.

This is the bug.  I expect ESC or ^G to have the effect of closing the
windowlist *without* changing which window is displayed in the viewing
terminal.

6. There is a second bug which I find less troublesome (thus not worth the
effort of creating a 2nd report).  Observe the 'select 0' in my
.screen-windowlist-bug -- this is there because step 2's `screen ... -p 0`
does not succeed in selecting window 0.  It appears that '-p %d' succeeds when
attaching to an existing screen session, but not if that session was created
by the current `screen` command.  So I put in 'select 0' as a workaround; it
makes step 2's command-line '-p 0' *appear* to work.

Note: observed these issues on Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS running the distro's screen
4.3.1 ('4.3.1-2build1').  I downloaded but did not build source for 4.3.1 and
4.6.1; observed that */list_window.c were identical, so I assume my main bug
still exists.  The 2nd bug would be in some other code so it may not exist any
more (I have no data).




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