Re: gnu screen defrag

On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 17:12:29 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Parson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Greetings fellow gnu-screen users.
> 
> I remember someone asking for something like this a while back, and I
> think there were a few solutions, but I never tried them out.
> 
> I decided I wanted to be able to do this today when I was looking at
> my window list in screen and I had ~30 windows opened, numbering
> 0-40, with obvious holes in there.
> 
> I did a quick google search and found a few solutions, none of which
> seemed particularly clean to me, so, I thought I'd give it a shot
> myself.
> 
> https://github.com/mparson/gnu-screen-defrag
> 
> Feel free to fork and send pull requests with improvements.
> 
> Just please don't flame for re-inventing a wheel when better
> alternatives are out there that I didn't find. :)
> 
> It works for me.  If it works for you, enjoy.
> 

Hey,

not sure which version you are using, but there is 'collapse' command ;)
It should renumber windows for you, without script.

Amadeusz