[screen-devel] [PATCH 1/2] screen: Introduce sort command which sorts windows according to their title

[Thomas Renninger]

The new command:
:sort
will sort all active screen windows ordered by title.
Limitation:
  - Will only work in overview window (CTRL-a-")

Still, this command is very helpful for users who use
screen sessions with a huge amount of active windows.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <address@hidden>
---
 src/comm.c       |    1 +
 src/doc/screen.1 |    5 +++++
 src/process.c    |   43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/comm.c b/src/comm.c
index 5f4af8a..36b2270 100644
--- a/src/comm.c
+++ b/src/comm.c
@@ -297,6 +297,7 @@ struct comm comms[RC_LAST + 1] =
   { "sleep",           ARGS_1 },
   { "slowpaste",       NEED_FORE|ARGS_01 },
   { "sorendition",      ARGS_012 },
+  { "sort",            ARGS_0 },
   { "source",          ARGS_1 },
   { "split",           NEED_DISPLAY|ARGS_01 },
   { "startup_message", ARGS_1 },
diff --git a/src/doc/screen.1 b/src/doc/screen.1
index 98674eb..f27e84c 100644
--- a/src/doc/screen.1
+++ b/src/doc/screen.1
@@ -3012,6 +3012,11 @@ underlying system exposes flow control problems while 
pasting large amounts of
 text. 
 .sp
 .ne 3
+.B sort
+.PP
+Sort the windows in alphabetical order of the window tiles.
+.sp
+.ne 3
 .BI "source " file
 .PP
 Read and execute commands from file \fIfile\fP. Source commands may
diff --git a/src/process.c b/src/process.c
index 30497a3..783ada5 100644
--- a/src/process.c
+++ b/src/process.c
@@ -3024,6 +3024,49 @@ int key;
            }
        }
       break;
+    case RC_SORT:
+      if (fore)
+        {
+         /* Better do not allow this. Not sure what the utmp stuff in number
+            command above is for (you get four entries in e.g. /var/log/wtmp
+            per number switch). But I don't know enough about this.*/
+         Msg(0, "Sorting inside a window is not allowed. Push CTRL-a \" "
+             "and try again\n");
+         break;
+       }
+      /*
+       * Simple sort algorithm: Look out for the smallest, put it
+       * to the first place, look out for the 2nd smallest, ...
+      */
+      for (i = 0; i < maxwin ; i++)
+        {
+         if (wtab[i] == NULL)
+             continue;
+         n = i;
+         for (nr = i + 1; nr < maxwin; nr++)
+           {
+             if (wtab[nr] == NULL)
+                 continue;
+             debug2("Testing window %d and %d.\n", nr, n);
+             if (strcmp(wtab[nr]->w_title,wtab[n]->w_title) < 0)
+                   n = nr;
+           }
+         if (n != i)
+           {
+               debug2("Exchange window %d and %d.\n", i, n);
+               p = wtab[n];
+               wtab[n] = wtab[i];
+               wtab[i] = p;
+               wtab[n]->w_number = n;
+               wtab[i]->w_number = i;
+#ifdef MULTIUSER
+               /* exchange the acls for these windows. */
+               AclWinSwap(i, n);
+#endif
+           }
+       }
+      WindowChanged((struct win *)0, 0);
+      break;
     case RC_SILENCE:
       n = fore->w_silence != 0;
       i = fore->w_silencewait;
-- 
1.7.6.1