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bug #43524: Screen keybindings

Submitter:  G. <liar666>
Submitted:  Tue 04 Nov 2014 09:43:45 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Program Logic Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  * 5 - Normal Status:  None
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Tue 04 Nov 2014 05:28:42 PM UTC, comment #1: 

The manual does need to be updated, and I did try to address this in bug #29430.

Following vi traditions, try adding these keybindings:

bind h focus left
bind l focus right

You can also try experimenting with focus next and focus prev.

HTH

Curtis Brown <mrbrown8>
Tue 04 Nov 2014 09:43:45 AM UTC, original submission:  

Hi all,

According to the manual:
https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/html_node/Focus.html#Focus

"(C-a <Tab>)
    Move the input focus to the next region. This is done in a cyclic way so that the top region is selected after the bottom one. If no subcommand is given it defaults to `down'. `up' cycles in the opposite order, `top' and `bottom' go to the top and bottom region respectively. Useful bindings are (j and k as in vi)
              bind j focus down
              bind k focus up
              bind t focus top
              bind b focus bottom"

I've bound "C-a p" to "focus up" and "C-a n" to "focus down"... And they do exactly what is said: they switch to the top/bottom region, but NEVER to the region on the right or on the left and they never go back to an lower/upper region.
On the contrary, the default C-a <Tab> focuses alternatively on each region of the whole list of regions, going up/down/top/bottom if necessary and cycling through the list...

As a conclusion, that means that, contrarily to what the documentation says:
1. "focus <argument>" does not follow a cycle process;
2. "focus" with no argument does not behave by default as "focus down"...

So either the documentation or the implementation is wrong...

This is particularly annoying, since I'm trying to bind a key to a command that would cycle through the whole list of regions, but in reverse order (in order not to have to go through a cycle of X (>>2) "C-a <Tab>" to reach the previous region), but such a command actually doesn't exist :[

Cheers

GM

G. <liar666>

 

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