screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes (typically interactive shells). Each virtual terminal provides the functions of a DEC VT100 terminal and, in addition, several control functions from the ANSI X3.64 (ISO 6429) and ISO 2022 standards (e.g. insert/delete line and support for multiple character sets). There is a scrollback history buffer for each virtual terminal and a copy-and-paste mechanism that allows moving text regions between windows.
screen-3.9.11: description + notes
New features in
Screen 3.9.11
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- windowlist, bound to ^A"
- support for other encodings, e.g. big5, koi8r, cp1251 new commands 'encoding', 'defencoding' 'register', 'readreg', 'readbuf', 'writebuf' now understand an extra encoding parameter
- support for double utf-8 characters
- lots of new string escapes and extensions to existsing ones:
%LD, %LM, %Lw, %W, %-w, %+w, %H, %f, %F, %l, %=, %<, %>- new commands: 'source', 'eval', 'deflog', 'ignorecase', 'setsid'
- command key classes: 'bind', 'command' and 'help' understand a '-c
' parameter. See the man page for examples - new login state: always - don't remove slot even if screen gets detached
- 256 color support (experimental)
- configurable time format string (for ^At)
- config option to use localized month/week names
- new option '-h' for hardcopy: also dump the scrollback buffer
/usr/freeware/doc/screen/NEWS
for more details. The GNU Project Screen page also has information.
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