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The status line syntax of screen was terrible. It was almost read like a magic incantation. tmux felt way better. I wonder if this changed at all.
by scriptdevil 12y ago
The status line syntax of screen was terrible. It was almost read like a magic incantation. tmux felt way better. I wonder if this changed at all.
- ordinary 12y agocaption always "%?%F%{w}%:%{K}%? %{R}%H%{-} %{B}>>%{-} %L=%{k}%-Lw%45>%{G}%n%f %t%{-}%+Lw%=%{-}%-22<%{B}<<%{-} %{R}%Y-%m-%d %0c:%s%{-}" Nope, it's still terrible. :)
- ansible 12y agoYeah. They took ideas from things like PS1 setting with Bourne shell, and kept going. Keeping the variables to single letters was intended to have the format string be approximately the same length as it might actually be displayed. However, that doesn't work well in practice. It would be better to go with keywords (or maybe even key-phrases) instead.