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From: craig@cs.toronto.edu (Craig MacDonald)
Subject: .screenrc bindings
Message-ID: <90Oct19.184855edt.2316@smoke.cs.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Date: 19 Oct 90 22:49:18 GMT
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I have just been introduced to a utility to create multiple logical
screens on my xt100+ called screen (version SGI 4D series ansi 2.0a).
I have been attempting to customize this by creating a .screenrc
file.  Can anyone show me how to bind a character to a combination
of this type:-

bind ^<char> < Screen utility > | < shell script file >
for instance
bind ^<char> < make hardcopy of screen n contents > | lpr

bind ^<char> < shell script file >  - | takes as input the 
				      | current window number
				      | as an argument.

I am not sure if this is possible without modifying the source.  If
anyone has used this utility extensively I would be interested in
the limitations of bind.

I have also tried to toggle between 80/132 columns and had problems.
The screen bind 'C-a W' doesn't alter my terminal, so that I must
toggle physical terminal settings as well.  The latter could be done
by echoing cntl characters to the terminal.

Craig Mac Donald 

craig@na.toronto.edu