Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal
between several processes (typically interactive shells).
Each virtual terminal provides the functions of a DEC VT100 terminal and, in
addition, several control functions from the ANSI X3.64 (ISO 6429) and ISO
2022 standards (e.g. insert/delete line and support for multiple character
sets). There is a scrollback history buffer for each virtual terminal and a
copy-and-paste mechanism that allows moving text regions between windows.
===> The following configuration options are available for screen50-5.0.1_4:
INFO=on: Build and/or install GNU info pages
MULTIUSER=on: Install setuid-root screen to support multiuser
NOSOCKETDIR=off: Use ~/.screen instead of socketdir
SYSTEM_SCREENRC=on: Install system screenrc with helpful status line
====> Console (text) interface support: you have to select exactly one of them
NCURSES_DEFAULT=on: Depend on ncurses (ports if installed, otherwise base)
NCURSES_BASE=off: Depend on ncurses in base
NCURSES_PORT=off: Depend on devel/ncurses in ports
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
As of GNU Screen 4.4.0:
Note that there was fix to screen message structure field
responsible for $TERM handling, making it impossible
to attach to older versions.
sysutils/screen*: Work around hardstatus regression
The workaround provided by the submittor works better than the hardstatus
line provided by upstream.
PR: 287045
sysutils/screen50: Use upstream bundled tarball
Now that the upstream bundled tarball is available, use it instead of
fetching it directly from the sanvanah git repo.
sysutils/screen50: Use enable-socket-dir=
--with-socket-dir= has been replaced by enable-socket-dir=.
PR: 286930
Submitted by: 286930 <xj.dropbox+freebsd@gmail.com>
sysutils/screen*: Use a 5.0.0 sample hardstatus line
The hardstatus parser was rewritten for 5.0 Use the new sample.
The old 4.9 sample no longers works under 5.0.
Note: There is a regression with the new hardstatus in 5.0.
A bug report has been submitted to upstream. This is the reason
5.0 was not made default sooner.
sysutils/screen*: Correct the system screenrc location
The upstream default is /etc. The ports default is ${PREFIX}/etc.
Reported by: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
sysutils/screen50: Introduce the new screen 5.0.0
Screen 5.0.0 is the next major release of GNU Screen. Unfortunatly
while testing sysutils/screen-devel I discovered bugs with its
hardstatus implementation. Existing hardstatus failed to work
correctly. I had opened a bug with the GNU Screen upstream. They
had fixed one of the bugs however the last time I tested screen-devel,
some status strings were still unavailable, not to mention that the
hardstatus string syntax has changed.
Therefore I don't believe screen50 should replace screen49 as our
default GNU screen until a) some of the issues are resolved and
b) we the FreeBSD community have had a little more experience with
it.
People who wish to use screen50 will need to uninstall screen
(currently a meta port pointing to screen49) and install screen50.
Any bugzilla bugs will likely spawn an upstream bug report by
myself.
