Re: Help with keybinding and exec command
"dan d." <[email protected]>
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I'm wanting to run a shell script. Do I use metakey+h in your example or h alone? As I recall ctrl+h,ie. ^h would be possible also? I see web examples with bindkey, how is that different? Thanks for your help. On Thu, 7 Dec 2017, David Woodfall wrote: > >Can you provide more details? > > > >bind h exec /usr/bin/htop > > > >works for me to start htop and returns when I quit. > > > >On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 7:42 PM, dan d. <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> Years ago I had a screenrc with a key binding that allowed using the exec > >> command. > >> > >> It would drop me to a sub-shell and return when finished. > >> > >> Despite all attempts to duplicate it from google examples and poor recall, > >> I have had only failures. > >> > >> Can someone help me please with a sample keybinding and/or other info that > >> would do this? > >> > >> Thnks. > >> -- > >> > >> -- > >> XB > > You can also bind to open a new screen with a command and have it > close when you quit: > > bind z screen /usr/bin/htop > > D > > _______________________________________________ > screen-users mailing list > screen-users-mXXj517/[email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users > -- XB