Re: repainting the screen buffer

[Juergen Weigert]

On Mar 23, 07 09:19:53 +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> >> Below something I tried using a register (here invoked with Alt-h) This
> sort
> >> of works, but hardcopy makes you lose the color/bold/etc. information,
> >> unfortunately. Still it might be better than nothing and help you
> figure out
> >> how the 'register' and 'process' commands work.
> >>
> >> #
> >> register H "^A:hardcopy -h $HOME/.screen.hc^M^A:exec
> /local/openpkg/bin/head
> >> -c -1 $HOME/.screen.hc^M"
> >> bindkey ^[h process H
> >> #
> 
> >I've spent a couple hours trying to make this work.  It seems to me
> >that there is a limit on the number of characters one can put in a
> >register.
> 
> There might be, there definately seems to be a limit to 100 (and less if
> the screen is less wide) characters of input on the : line of the
> terminal.

The : input line is limited. Registers are not.
Wasn't there a command to slurp register contents from a file?

        cheers,
                Jw.

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