Re: alpha as window number?

David Collins <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.screen.user
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I have the following in my .screenrc to get to windows > 9

# bind keys '^a - [0-9]' to screens 10-19
bind - command -c select10
bind -c select10 0 select 10
bind -c select10 1 select 11
bind -c select10 2 select 12
bind -c select10 3 select 13
bind -c select10 4 select 14
bind -c select10 5 select 15
bind -c select10 6 select 16
bind -c select10 7 select 17
bind -c select10 8 select 18
bind -c select10 9 select 19

On 05/11/2012, Benjamin Bradley <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've been using screen for a few years and love it, but I tend to keep
> open a large (>10) number of windows, similar to my web browsing habits.
> I'm wondering if it's possible to expand the window numbers to include
> alpha as well as the 0-9 numerics, so that when one opens the
> 'windowlist' command, a window could be chosen not just with the 0-9
> digits, but letters a-z as well? As it is currently, windows numbered >=
> 10 don't get a number at all, so I just have to scroll down to that
> entry. It would be great if all my screen sessions could have their own
> hotkey.
>
> Apologies if this is already covered in the documentation somewhere, I
> didn't see it in the man page or in the listserve archives. And thanks
> in advance for your advice!
>
> Thanks,
> Benjamin
>
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