Re: set term screen

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Friday 13 February 2009 01:16:28 Petr Mikulik wrote:

> > 
> > Let's go back to the beginning.
> > What exactly is the problem that is being solved?
> 
> User/script writes in a portable and elegant way:
> 	set term screen title 'hello'
> 	set term screen 4
> 	set term screen 5 size 400,400

Thank you.  That clarifies the goal.

> instead of
> 	term_startup=GPVAL_TERM
>         ...
> 	eval('set term '.term_startup.' title "hello"')
> 	eval('set term '.term_startup.' 4')
> 	eval('set term '.term_startup.' 5 size 400,400')

Well, you can do better than that:

	set macros
	screen = GPVAL_TERM
	...
	set term @screen title 'hello'
	set term @screen 4
	set term @screen 5 size 400,400

Another possibility is to have the "set term" command accept
the terminal name as a string.  
	screen = "x11"
	set term screen 5 size 400,400

See attached patch.


-- 
Ethan A Merritt