Re: screen-users Digest, Vol 1122, Issue 1

[Daniel Patrick Sullivan]

Nice.  Works like a charm.  You rock.  Thanks.  

Dan

On Nov 28, 2010, at 2:14 PM, Michael Kelleher wrote:

> Hi Dan,
> 
> Solution:
> 
> bind j eval "copy" "stuff gw^MG^M"
> 
> Use C-a j to activate.
> 
> Explination:
> 
> What you are trying to accomplish I went through as well a couple years ago. 
> You are taking a good approach but not the best. Screen provides a command 
> (copy) that will allow you to enter the scrollback mode without stuffing a 
> character sequence into the buffer. We can't avoid this in the next part 
> thought; however, instead of using 'process' which is for more heavy duty 
> manipulations you should be using 'stuff'. Finally instead of using space to 
> mark the begin/end of the sequence we are going to use enter because that 
> character is easier to capture.
> 
> Happy Thankings giving to the community as well.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Daniel Patrick Sullivan 
> <address@hidden<mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> Ok I have been tinkering around a little bit and I actually want to take this 
> a step further.  I want to write a screen "macro" that does the following 
> things in sequence (I've put the required key for each step at the end of the 
> numbered command;
> 
> 1) Enter copy mode: ^a[
> 2) Go to the top of the buffer: g
> 3) Go forward to the first word: w
> 4) Begin block selection SPACE
> 5) Go to the end of the buffer G
> 6) End block selection SPACE
> 
> I found an example online I am not 100% sure how to deal with the spaces so I 
> decided to deal steps 1-3 first.  I found this link online that suggests I 
> should be able to send multiple characters to screen's input queue by 
> leveraging the register and process commands such as;
> 
> register j ^a[gw
> bindkey j process j
> 
> The page that I found this information at is:
> 
> http://superuser.com/questions/94612/macros-in-gnu-screen
> 
> I also referenced the GNU documentation and what I have looks like it should 
> do the trick.  The only thing that I see that might need to be tweaked is the 
> -e option, although GNU's documentation doesn't specify what my options are 
> in this regard.  I guess my problem is that it's not working.  When I try to 
> use the bindkey and register at the top what I receive is "No other window" 
> on screens status bar at the bottom of the screen.
> 
> Has anybody successfully bound a key to process a register that interacts 
> with screen's buffering capabilities?  Could you maybe share the syntax of 
> your key binding and register with me?
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/screen.html#Registers
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 28, 2010, at 4:30 AM, Kit Gerrits wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Next Word, genius!
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>> Enter scrollback mode then hit "g w"
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