On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury <ima...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Andrew Schulman > <and...@alumni.utexas.net> wrote: >> Hi all. I'm the maintainer of screen in Cygwin. We currently have version >> 4.0.3, with some Cygwin-specific patches and 256-color support. >> >> I'm looking for the famous vertical split patch. I see the version linked >> from http://fungi.yuggoth.org/vsp4s/, but that version seems to be >> outdated. I tried it in Cygwin, and among other problems, it doesn't show >> a vertical divider on the screen, and has no documentation of the vertical >> split feature. There's discussion at >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/123523. >> >> The usual advice seems to be to check out the latest version of the screen >> source from git, which includes the vertical split capability. >> Unfortunately this doesn't work in Cygwin, because there's a large >> Cygwin-specific patch that I have to apply, that fails on the latest git >> source. I know I'll have to get past that at some point, but at the moment >> I just want to add vertical split to the version we have that works in >> Cygwin. >> >> A third method would be to try to apply all of the vertical-split related >> commits from >> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git/log/?qt=grep&q=vertical. I >> haven't tried this yet, but it seems unlikely to work. >> > > I would highly encourage using as much from the git repository on > savannah.gnu.org as possible. There have been various fixes related to > vertical splits, especially related to scrolling performance with > vertical splits. Unfortunately, it is difficult to isolate the commits > that deal with only vertical splits (some of the fixes may even be > dependent on other changes you will need to include, etc.).
Hi Sadrul, I'm hitting a few of these (v-split related bugs), as well as a handful of other problems stemming from cherry picking individual patches from git (and neglecting later ones). Is there any chance of rolling a candidate screen release any time soon? Cheers, -- :-Dustin _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users