Re: Identifier matching in the at command

Just out of pure curiosity. What are you trying to accomplish?


On Sun, 5 Feb 2012, Adrian Fita wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 13:48, Adrian Fita <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> I'm interested in matching only a list of windows (title or numbers)
>> or a range of numbers. Is this possible? If yes, how?
>
> Seeing there doesn't seem to be an answer too soon, I poked around in
> the source code at http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git and I
> think I found the code that parses the identifier in the "at" command.
> It's located in the file process.c and begins at line no 1587. There,
> at line 1605 I found the following:
>
> if (strncmp(args[0], fore->w_title, n))
> 		      continue;
>
> It seems that the title is only matched with a srtcnmp, not at all
> with some regexp which would allow some advanced expressions for
> matching the title. So I guess I'll have to make do with the three
> matching methods I mentioned in the previous message. Am i right?