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diff --git a/NEWS.3.9 b/NEWS.3.9 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4dc7891 --- /dev/null +++ b/NEWS.3.9 @@ -0,0 +1,205 @@ + ------------------------------- + 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 <class>' 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<Tab> - 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 <secs> + 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. + |