Re: gnu screen defrag

Michael Parson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.screen.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 17 Jun 2016, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote:
> 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.

Doh!

When did that get introduced?  I remember it being discussed, but I
didn't remember it getting implemented.  I only follow this list, not
the dev list.

Oh well, it was a fun exercise. :)

-- 
Michael Parson
Austin, TX
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