Re: any way to renumber virtual terminals?

Sven Guckes <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.screen
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* The Fine Manual <[email protected]> [2004-02-04 08:50]:
> kibblesnbitsnbits ([email protected]) said:
> > From time to time, I end up accumulating
> > say, 13 virtual terminals, and then I remove
> > a bunch in the middle but the high numbered
> > terminals are still a pain to get to. Is
> > there a way to renumber the terminals?
>
> Reformatting screen(1), please wait...
>
> number [n]
>    Change the current windows number. If the
>    given number n is already used by another
>    window, both windows exchange their
>    numbers.  If no argument is specified, the
>    current window number (and title) is shown.

sure - you can use this command to manually
change the number of the current window.

just too bad you cannot ":source script"
to renumber the windows so they will
use all numbers starting from zero.
now, *that* would save some time!

so - ":renumber", anyone?

Sven


 
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