---------------------------- 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.