Announcing screen-session 0.6.3

Artur Skonecki <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.screen.user
Message-ID <alpine.DEB.2.00.1107301614120.8861@cvops>
Announcing screen-session 0.6.3
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screen-session home page:
   http://skoneka.github.com/screen-session/

Screenshots:
   http://skoneka.github.com/screen-session/screenshots.html

Download:
   http://github.com/skoneka/screen-session/downloads.html

Installation:
   http://skoneka.github.com/screen-session/installation.html

Development:
   git clone git://github.com/skoneka/screen-session


About this release:
===================

This version of screen-session contains a few new features and fixes a number
of bugs in the previous release. It claims to run on Python 2.4 - 2.7 and
supports Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris. Currently, running screen-session requires
modified GNU Screen sources.


New in this release:
====================

   * Layoutlist tool - displays a browseable list of layouts with a few nifty
     features ( search with highlight, MRU view, may run in a temporary layout )

   * Subwindows tool - prints windows nested in a group, adds support for
     selecting windows nested in groups

   * layout-checkpoint, layout-undo, layout-redo, layout-history
     - basic undo/redo for regions

   * Session saver:
     - added support for saving zombie windows
     - more streamlined command line invocation
     - performance improvements

   * The installation process is considerably simpler.
     Screen-session is now distributed with patched GNU Screen sources placed in
     screen-session-0.6.3/screen-4.1.0
     ( Screen development sources with a few modifications. )
     Github repository: https://github.com/skoneka/escreen
     - New commands:
         - dumpscreen [window | window-full | layout | layout-info | history]
         - tty
         - maxlay
     - make it possible to query "group", "maxwin", "layout", "screen" commands
     - associate :focusminsize with the layout
     - fix a crash when opening :windowlist inside a group
       (triggered by :monitor feature)
     - an escape for the escape key


About screen-session
====================

screen-session is a collection of tools for GNU Screen, the most prominent one
being the session saver ( with integrated VIM session saving ).
A full list of tools along their detailed descriptions, examples and screenshots
is available at the project's homepage.

screen-session is released under the GNU GPL.
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