First let me say thanks... Screen is super-great! The Request:
My request is to add a feature like this: screen -S $SCREEN -X windowlist --dump The new --dump switch for the windowlist command would cause the current screen invocation to print the titles of $SCREEN rather than open the window chooser in $SCREEN. It may be difficult to route the data stream from $SCREEN to the local STDOUT, so a variation of my request that (I think) would be easier to do would also get the job done: screen -S $SCREEN -X windowlist --dump_to_file=/tmp/$SCREEN.lst The Rational: Every now and then, my system at the office has an unexpected reboot, usually caused by a power failure, and usually on the weekend when I'm not there. When this happens, all my screen sessions get sent to screen session heaven. My config is nicely tweaked so that my screen window titles are quite meaningful. If I had a dump of the window titles that were running prior to the session wipe-out, it would go a long way toward reminding me of what I was working on in my various sessions. With this feature, I could then have an hourly cron job that looped through my screens and threw the title dumps into logger (which would send the output to syslog). A Supportive Argument: I am not asking for some sort of "session manager" capability, which I've seen others request. I agree that that is not a good idea... I think this is a small request... Just take the info that windowlist already has and log it to a file (easy?) or to the screen that's making the query (hard?), rather than building the window chooser interface. I thank you for your time and consideration. - Tor _______________________________________________ screen-devel mailing list screen-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-devel
