Re: Moving windows around

[James Campos]

> It would probably be easier to 'select X, focus, select Y' instead?
That is easier! Since I usually only have two windows open, I've bound
^r to eval next focus next.

> Unfortunately, since 'X' and 'Y' are variables, you cannot create a
> binding for this sequence of operations.
I was thinking, if it came down to it, I could store the values by
sending commands to the shell.

> So I would very likely consider
> a clean patch for this feature ... *hint*
Haha, well right now I'm learning Ruby, but if / when I finally pick
up C, I might come back to this.

Thanks!


On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury
<address@hidden> wrote:
> * James Campos had this to say on [23 Jan 2010, 05:26:43 -0800]:
>> In vim, I can hit ^W^R to swap the position of two windows. Is there
>> anything similar for screen? If not, I'd like to request it.
>
> There currently is nothing similar to this in screen.
>
>> What I currently do is: move to the top window, kill it, re-split,
>> then select the window I just killed. I assume I could bind this
>> somehow, but it seems like a pretty basic operation (2 keystrokes in
>> vim).
>
> It would probably be easier to 'select X, focus, select Y' instead?
> Unfortunately, since 'X' and 'Y' are variables, you cannot create a
> binding for this sequence of operations. So I would very likely consider
> a clean patch for this feature ... *hint*
>
> Cheers,
> Sadrul
>