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has caused the Debian Bug report #563716,
regarding screen, very useful tool: duplicate the window (add in adjacent tab)
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Package: screen
Version: 4.0.3-14
Severity: wishlist
Hello,
Very seldom, one is obliged to create a new window using screen. Well, it is
the principle of screen, to have some tabs of windows in the statusbar as below:
OK, so the very useful add-on would consist as follows:
" to duplicate the current window, and add a similar one which would be
inserted in the tab windows (numbers)"
This is a bit like galeon, when you press CTRL and open a new url, it opens a
new tab adjacent.
Here it would be with screen.
This feature would have also the power to let you remain as root.
For instance, screen 0 : ssh to distant -l username
ok you get hte login
then you type sudo su
you get the root
and you do : c-a DUplicate-key somehting, and you get a second tab window with
this root on the distant server
this would let you do 2 root on the distant server command lines
If you would like a third command running, ... e.g. burning a cdrom entered as
root, ... just do : c-a DUplicate-key
this would avoid to type all the time the password since we typed it already.
This feature for screen would be very very useful, and you may find a new key
for this DUPLICATING of WINDOWS COMMMAND LINE
I hope that this feature could be implemented.
Thank you very much. I use screen 95% of the time, and for server : nothing
better.
Best regards and all my best wishes
2010, it is already many many years that screen exists. : congratulations !!
its cool
Y.
cat .screenrc
hardstatus alwayslastline "%c %w"
# Don't display the copyright page
startup_message off
# tab-completion flash in heading bar
vbell off
# keep scrollback n lines
defscrollback 1000
#For windows, F11 and F12 (NOT F1 and F2) to previous and next screen window
can go to next prev window
bindkey -k F1 prev
bindkey -k F2 next
bindkey ^[[1;5A prev
bindkey ^[[1;5B next
bindkey ^[[1;5D prev
bindkey ^[[1;5C next
bindkey ^N screen
bindkey ^[[1;2D prev
bindkey ^[[1;2C next
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages screen depends on:
ii dpkg 1.15.5.3 Debian package management system
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in
ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncursesw5 5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpam0g 1.1.0-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
screen recommends no packages.
screen suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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