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Is there a screen command to identify the current visible window number?


From: 张小潘
Subject: Is there a screen command to identify the current visible window number?
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 20:33:25 -0700

Hi there,

In short:
If a screen session has multiple windows, does any one know how to tell the number of the current visible window?

In long:
As I explained in this thread, I have two monitors running two screen sessions, and a vim window in one and bash in the other, and I am using screen '-X stuff' command to send shell commands from the vim window to the bash window to execute them. Because the screen session in which the bash lives might have multiple windows, I want to make sure the bash window receiving commands is visible and if it is not, explicitly switch to that by selecting them. However, if a window is already selected, selecting it again causing an annoying message box and a pause in the screen display, so I want to avoid selecting already selected window. I know the window number where the bash runs, but how can I get the current visible window number?

Regards.

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Xiaopan Zhang - (张小潘)

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