------------------------------- What's new in screen-3.9.15 ? ------------------------------- * unicode combining character support * new encoding: chinese GBK * new 'backtick' command and string escape to embed command output into e.g. the hardstatus line ------------------------------- What's new in screen-3.9.13 ? ------------------------------- * altscreen support from Gurusamy Sarathy * new command "maxwin" to set a limit on the number of windows * new keys in copy&paste mode: 'B' and 'E' ------------------------------- What's new in screen-3.9.11 ? ------------------------------- * 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 ------------------------------ What's new in screen-3.9.9 ? ------------------------------ * new '-X' option to send commands to screen sessions. screen -X echo Hi... * added a possibility to change the attributes/color in caption or hardstatus strings: caption always "%3n %{r}%t%{-}%? @%u%?%? %{g}[%h]%{-}%?" * new 'dinfo' command to show what screen thinks about your terminal. * new 'attrcolor' command to map attributes to color codes: attrcolor u "-u b" attrcolor b "r" * support for UTF-8: new commands 'utf8', 'defutf8' to change the encoding of a window, plus a '-U' option to tell screen that your terminal sends/receives UTF-8 codes. * support for 16 colors. ------------------------------ What's new in screen-3.9.8 ? ------------------------------ * new command 'resize' to resize regions (aka split windows), try: bind = resize = bind + resize +1 bind - resize -1 bind _ resize max * new argument for 'focus': up, down, top, bottom * X11 mouse tracking support * Support for the "new color model", aka "background color erase": the bce/defbce commands change the color model of the current window/new windows. * experimental rxvt OSC sequence support (used to set a background picture or to change the default colors), disabled by default. ---------------------------- What's new in screen-3.9 ? ---------------------------- * real multiuser support A window can now be displayed on more than one attached displays. Screen does all the necessary clipping if the window size doesn't fit the display. New command: ^AF - fit the window size into the display size. * split screen support A display may now host multiple windows. New commands: ^AS - split horizontally. This add another region to the display ^A - move the focus to the next region ^AX - kill the current region ^AQ - kill all other regions * hardstatus emulation support The last line of the display may now be used as a hardstatus line if the terminal doesn't have the 'hs' capability. New commands: hardstatus [always]lastline hardstatus [always]message hardstatus [always]ignore * configurable window seperator and hardstatus strings The window (region) seperator and the hardstatus can be set to an arbitrary string containing screen's % escape sequences. The window's hardstatus is just another escape sequence, '%h'. New commands: hardstatus string [string] caption string [string] The default strings are "%h" (hardstatus) and "%3n %t" (caption). * permanent window seperator The window seperator can be set to stay on screen even if the display contains only one region New commands: caption always caption splitonly * many new escapes %c - current time HH:MM (*CHANGE*: this was %w in screen-3.7) %C - current time HH:MM in 24h format %l - the load of the system %h - hardstatus of the window %w - all window names %W - all window names except the current window %u - all other users on this window %? - the part to the next %? is displayed only if an escape expands to an nonempty string. %: - "else" part of %? Some escapes like %c may be qualified with a '0' (like %0c) to make screen use '0' instead of space as a filler. Others understand a length qualifier, like %3n. If escapes like the current time are used as hardstatus/caption string screen will update them so that you can always have the current time onscreen. *CHANGE* ~ is no longer used as bell character, use ^G instead! * logfile timestamps and flush timeout New commands: logfile flush logtstamp [on|off] logtstamp string [string] logtstamp after [secs] * configurable breaktype You can now choose one of TIOCSBRK, TCSBRK, tcsendbreak. New commands: breaktype defbreaktype * other new commands: hstatus - set the window's hardstatus defslowpaste defsilence * optional builtin telnet. This is useful if screen is used as frontend to a terminal multiplexor. Use //telnet to access the builtin telnet program, as in: 'screen //telnet host [port]' * remote detach and reattach change: '-d' is now ignored if the screen is already detached and you want to reattach. You can also use '-RR' to make screen use the first session found if more than one session is available. Thus '-d -RR' or '-x -RR' always gets you a screen. * support for history compaction You can tell screen to suppress trailing blank lines when scolling up text into the history buffer. (Wayne Davison) New command: compacthist * optional Braille support. If you can read Braille and have one of the devices listed in README.DOTSCREEN, please compile with -DHAVE_BRAILLE and let us know if this feature is useful.