Re: [screen-devel] Extend windows command, introduce Xx string escape

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

I'm happy to see something moving, but please don't make screen a
second tmux.

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 10:13:06AM +0100, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote:
> * rewrite command line parsing (tmux has it thought out pretty well)
> 
> screen new
> screen attach [-f --force] [pid] (or first free one) 
> screen detach [-f --force] pid
> screen reattach [-f --force] [pid
> screen newdisplay [-n --new-window]
> screen query windows|displays|sessions

Especially leave the commandline interface backwards compatible as far
as possible, i.e. continue to use -X (or add a new option) for passing
commands to screen.

                Kind regards, Axel
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