[screen-devel] gnu screen horizontal split extras patch

[Jim Mahood]

Hi list, I sent this patch to Sadrul directly a little while back, but 
didn't hear anything back, so I figured I'd send to the list for feedback 
and hopefully acceptance.  Note: the somewhat confusingly-named 
"horizontal" splits in screen refer to splitting a window into 
horizontally-adjacent windows, which I'm used to referring to as 
*vertical* splits, and I don't think I'm alone on that one. :)

Please accept the attached patch that adds the following:

Horizontal split extras

* Adds screen.exe to src/.gitignore
* Adds hsplitchar and hsplitcolor commands & processing
* Adds application of hsplitchar and hsplitcolor to drawing of horizontal
  split separator
* Adds documentation to doc/screen.1 and doc/screen.texinfo
* Adds example to etc/screenrc

Rather than use the defaults of a space character and the standout rendition 
when drawing the vertical separator between horizontally-split windows, these 
commands allow the user to customize its appearance.

It still preserves the default values prior to this patch, and the only 
regression I see is that if a user does change sorendition for the purpose of 
controlling the vertical bar's attributes/color, those will no longer be 
applied to that bar.  I don't see a simple solution to this issue, but maybe 
you do.  The remedy for such a user is to use the hsplitcolor command instead 
of, or in addition to, sorendition (or rendition so).

- Jim

screen.horiz.split.patch
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