Re: GNU screen hardstatus line

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 08:12:25AM -0800, Allan wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is there a way to note down the starting time or the duration of the current screen session? I always resume after a long time after and feel it would be helpful to know when the screen session was started.

This is not really a vim question, but I'll bite.

Unfortunately, screen's built-in 'time' command gives you the current
time instead of the duration of the screen session itself.

Offhand, I'd suggest asking ps(1) for the starting time of your screen
server. You can get the PID of the screen server from the STY
environment variable from within screen:

ps -ostart_time $(echo $STY | cut -d. -f1)

You could put the output of a variation of that command into the
statusline by means of screen's 'backtick' command.

For follow-up discussion, I recommend the screen-users mailing list

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-users

and/or the #screen channel on Freenode.

--
Erik Falor
Registered Linux User #445632 http://unnovative.net

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