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I’m obsessed with having optimal keyboard shortcuts with whatever program. I recently switched from using client-side textmate to server-side vim as I want to move as much as possible to the cloud.

I have looked for a good way to switch windows in gnu screen for a long time without having to use ctrl-a 1. That’s what I came up with:

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In scripts I often want to display some status information (e.g. progress), this can be achieved with e.g.:

but this just works for one-liners. I wanted to have what top or less do: open a new "window" and being able to write everywhere in the window, not just on the last line.

Found out that curses does exactly that - but I didn't find a stripped-to-the-bare-necessities-example, so here you are: