Re: creating command aliases

[Buddy Burden]

Conrad,

> actually, there's a limitation with this.  If I am in a window which  
> contains a remote shell, then I have to
> switch to a window which has a local shell.  Not a big deal but a lot  
> of my shells are remote.  Having
> screen handle the alias would allow it to work irrespective of the  
> context.

If you mean something that you could type after Ctrl-A colon, then I suppose you could have some sort of alias inside 
screen that would map to a new window command followed by a stuff command.  That might be useful to some folks.  But 
there's no such thing ATM (not AFAIK anyway).

But if you mean just typing it at the shell prompt, I imagine it wouldn't be practical for screen to try to intercept 
that before the shell got hold of it.


                -- Buddy