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bug #52203: ESC and ^G in :windowlist select wrong window

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Tue 10 Oct 2017 09:12:57 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Program Logic Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  * 5 - Normal Status:  Confirmed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Open/Closed:  Open Release:  4.3.1
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
Work Required:  None
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Tue 24 Oct 2017 12:57:44 AM UTC, comment #2: 

I submitted this bug.  Now I have a savannah account.

Bela Lubkin <filbo>
Tue 10 Oct 2017 09:14:34 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Submitted by Bela Lubkin; several of my email addresses are well known.

Anonymous
Tue 10 Oct 2017 09:12:57 PM UTC, original submission:  

It's some sort of -x multi-display mode interaction.  To reproduce:

1. Create file ~/.screen-windowlist-bug:

chdir /tmp
screen -t tmp
chdir /var
screen -t var
select 0

2. In one 'physical' terminal (for me: one tab of an `xfce4-terminal`), run:

$ screen -x -R -S screen-windowlist-bug -c ~/.screen-windowlist-bug -p 0

-- observe that shell pwd is /tmp

3. In another terminal (2nd tab of `xfce4-terminal`), run:

$ screen -x -R -S screen-windowlist-bug -c ~/.screen-windowlist-bug -p 1

-- observe that shell pwd is /var

4. In the first physical terminal, hit ^A " [ == ^A : windowlist -b ]

-- observe that the highlighted member of the window list is '1 var'; which is probably reasonable, as it is the most recently activated window.

5. Without moving the highlight, hit ESC or ^G

-- observe that the first physical terminal (and thus both physical terminals) is now displaying window 1 'var'.

This is the bug.  I expect ESC or ^G to have the effect of closing the windowlist without changing which window is displayed in the viewing terminal.

6. There is a second bug which I find less troublesome (thus not worth the effort of creating a 2nd report).  Observe the 'select 0' in my .screen-windowlist-bug -- this is there because step 2's `screen ... -p 0` does not succeed in selecting window 0.  It appears that '-p %d' succeeds when attaching to an existing screen session, but not if that session was created by the current `screen` command.  So I put in 'select 0' as a workaround; it makes step 2's command-line '-p 0' appear to work.

Note: observed these issues on Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS running the distro's screen 4.3.1 ('4.3.1-2build1').  I downloaded but did not build source for 4.3.1 and 4.6.1; observed that */list_window.c were identical, so I assume my main bug still exists.  The 2nd bug would be in some other code so it may not exist any more (I have no data).

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