Re: Screen window closes on application exit

[Michael Parson]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 02:26:08PM -0800, address@hidden wrote:
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> > > Howsabout when you want certain programs only to exit to
> > > a shell commandline when you decide to manually exit
> > > them, now and then..? i.e. not necessarily run the same
> > > program again, or with the same input data file -- but
> > > you want that screen to stay right there?
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> > I'm not sure I understand what you're looking for.  Can
> > you give an example?
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> I think the context was clear: simply to have a zombie exit
> to a shell. Obviously, going into detail here was a
> distraction.

in your .screenrc

screen -t mutt 0
        stuff "mutt\015"

This will create a screen in slot 0 an run mutt from the shell prompt,
when you quit mutt, it will drop you to your default shell.

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Michael Parson
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