Re: scripting hardstatus with backtick

[Michael Schroeder]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 04:01:31PM -0400, TJ Harrell wrote:
> I'd like to have a hardstatus similar to this:
> 
> hardstatus alwayslastline "%{Bw}%l%= "
> 
> I would like to modify this somewhat, so that the color is changed when the
> current load exceeds 1.5.
> I could easily output a string like:
> 
> "%{Bw}0.19, 0.11, 0.07%= "
> 
> from a perl script, but screen will not interpret the string escapes
> contained in the output of a script when used from backtick.

It works if you use control-%, i.e. ^E.

Cheers,
  Michael.

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main(_){while(_=~getchar())putchar(~_-1/(~(_|32)/13*2-11)*13);}