Re: Is there a way of getting current xterm buffer?

[Sebastian Gniazdowski <sgniazdowski@gmail.com>]

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Thanks. For completing screen-words, I would it seems need something
different – so that the screen contents gets saved to the file in
background, causing no visual or other effects for the user. Is this
possible?

On Tue, 19 Sept 2023 at 22:06, Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net>
wrote:

> On 9/19/23 5:21 PM, Sebastian Gniazdowski wrote:
> > It fine to save the screen copy to a file, I can read it via $(<file).
>
> Fair enough.
>
> > Does xterm can save the screen to a file, via the "media-copy" control
> > seq that you've mentioned?
>
> XTerm can be configured to save content sent via media copy to a file.
>
> N.B. media copy doesn't capture the screen to a file.  Rather media copy
> causes XTerm to take subsequent data and send it to the file.
>
> You set media copy on, send data to -- ostensibly -- print to media, and
> then set media copy off to return the terminal to normal operations.
>
> > Is there some example available of how to use it?
>
> I've got things somewhere.
>
> Hand typing this between terminals for $REASONS.
>
> --8<--
> #!/bin/bash
> # Media Copy On
> echo -n "^[[5i"
> cat -
> # Media Copy Off
> echo -n "^[[4i"
> -->8--
>
> ^[ is a stand in for the escape character.
>
> This is the standard Control Sequence Introducer (CSI). Escape followed
> by an open square bracket.
>
> I use this with something like the following:
>
>     % uname -a | mediacopy
>
> That causes uname's STDOUT to go into the mediacopy script's STDIN which
> gets wrapped with the CSI 5 i or CSI 4 i.
>
> I have the following configured in my ~/.Xdefaults:
>
> --8<--
> XTerm.vt100.printerCommand: /path/to/XTerm.vt100.printerCommand.sh
> -->8--
>
> My XTerm.vt100.printerCommand.sh is fairly simple.
>
> --8<--
> #!/bin/bash
> cat - > `date +/path/to/destination.d/XTerm-printout-%Y%m%d-%H%M%S.txt`
> -->8--
>
> Remember to use xrdb et al. to load the updated ~/.Xdefaults file.  Or
> otherwise get the XTerm.vt100.printerCommand setting into X11.
>
>
>
> --
> Grant. . . .
> unix || die
>
>
>

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Best regards,
Sebastian Gniazdowski

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