Re: [screen-devel] new ideas for screen

2008-10-27 Thread Edward Peschko
well, a couple of points: - no, I'm looking for pattern matching, not tab completion. I don't want to have to remember my screen name being: vim /path/to/very/long/file where I could have several of these in different screens. - the usage (of both pattern matching and multi

Re: [screen-devel] new ideas for screen

2008-10-27 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Edward Peschko wrote: > ok - > > so with select, you can switch to buffers matching a given pattern? Is > that correct? I only see window name or number, not pattern.. Yes, there's currently not support for pattern (I suppose you're really asking for

Re: [screen-devel] new ideas for screen

2008-10-27 Thread Edward Peschko
ok - so with select, you can switch to buffers matching a given pattern? Is that correct? I only see window name or number, not pattern.. If it can use a pattern, the only thing missing (that I was asking for - would be to be able to search across multiple buffers with a single search. Is this o

Re: [screen-devel] new ideas for screen

2008-10-26 Thread Juergen Weigert
On Oct 20, 08 19:53:28 -0700, Edward Peschko wrote: > >> > >> 1. Named buffers. right now, there is only one buffer in vim. > > > > I assume you mean "in screen" since vim has buffers available for > > essentially every printable character, yes? > > yes.. that's correct. > > Anyways, thanks for t

Re: [screen-devel] new ideas for screen

2008-10-20 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Edward Peschko wrote: > hey all, > > I'm *very* glad that screen seems to have risen from the dead; it's > one of my favorite tools by far and has saved me tons of time over the > years. > > However, there are a couple of features that I think would

Re: [screen-devel] new ideas for screen

2008-10-20 Thread Edward Peschko
>> >> 1. Named buffers. right now, there is only one buffer in vim. > > I assume you mean "in screen" since vim has buffers available for > essentially every printable character, yes? yes.. that's correct. Anyways, thanks for the tip on redefining the main meta character.. with multiple buffers,

Re: [screen-devel] new ideas for screen

2008-10-20 Thread Tom Scogland
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Edward Peschko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hey all, > > I'm *very* glad that screen seems to have risen from the dead; it's > one of my favorite tools by far and has saved me tons of time over the > years. > > However, there are a couple of features that I think w