[screen-devel] description of -S and -p semantics in man page seems wrong

2012-05-26 Thread Britton Kerin
I wanted to create a screen socket with a specific name, and later be able to kill that particular window. I create the window like this: screen -S arduino /dev/ttyACM0 I expected to be able to kill it like this: screen -p arduino -X kill But this doesn't work, all that happens is I

Re: [screen-devel] description of -S and -p semantics in man page seems wrong

2012-05-29 Thread Britton Kerin
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Chris Jones wrote: > On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 06:32:03PM EDT, Britton Kerin wrote: > >> I wanted to create a screen socket with a specific name, and >> later be able to kill that particular window.  I create the window like >> this: >

Re: [screen-devel] description of -S and -p semantics in man page seems wrong

2012-05-31 Thread Britton Kerin
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Chris Jones wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 05:47:52PM EDT, Britton Kerin wrote: > > [..] > >> You seem to be correct.  The -S man page documentation still needs >> a fix though.  It begins "When creating a new session,... " whic

[screen-devel] using screen for AT commands?

2014-01-16 Thread Britton Kerin
I'm trying to use screen to talk over serial to a XBee wireless chip that can be controlled using the AT command set. So doing for example: screen /dev/ttyUSB0 (wait 1 second)+++(wait 1 second)ATBD(type return) causes screen to show nothing until return is typed, whereupon it overwrite th

Re: [screen-devel] [bug #57551] man page says C-a \ to quit, but C-a C-\ is what actually does quit

2020-01-07 Thread Britton Kerin
On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 4:18 PM Jürgen Weigert wrote: > > Technically the man page is correct, when speaking about the screen binary > itself. > The man page does not know that we ship a default /etc/screenrc that removes > the CTRL-A CTRL-\ binding, For me C-a C-\ *does* quit, it's C-a \ that d