Re: about renaming screens

2011-05-10 Thread Nicholas Marriott
yes this is a good idea, added to todo list On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 03:58:57PM -0700, Randy Stauner wrote: >this brings up an interesting idea... this could be achieved if the -p >argument to command-prompt >processed the status-line escape sequences: >command-prompt -p "rename (f

Re: about renaming screens

2011-05-05 Thread Stroller
On 20/4/2011, at 11:21pm, Harry Putnam wrote: > ... > I might just be missing a better way to rename a window. Maybe > someone will be able to tell me. Maybe you are: http://i.imgur.com/LMVGq.png Stroller. -- WhatsUp

Re: about renaming screens

2011-05-04 Thread Randy Stauner
this brings up an interesting idea... this could be achieved if the -p argument to command-prompt processed the status-line escape sequences: command-prompt -p "rename (from #W)" "rename-window '%%'" Note that this does not currently work, it's a suggestion for a feature request. On Wed, Apr 20,

about renaming screens

2011-05-04 Thread Harry Putnam
New user alert! (using tmux 1.4 on gentoo linux) I might just be missing a better way to rename a window. Maybe someone will be able to tell me. As a long time screen user, I've learned to name the various screens I might run for what they are doing, or who they are in order to keep up with what