Via Axel Beckert I learned today that GNU Screen is 25 years old, and although development is slow it has not ceased.
Back in 2008 I started to post about some annoyances with GNU Screen. At the time I posted a simple patch to implement the unbindall primitive. I posted some other patches and fixed a couple of bugs, but although there was some positive feedback initially over time that ceased completely. Regretably I didn't have the feeling there was the need to maintain a fork properly, so I quietly sighed, cried, and ceased.
In 2009 my code was moved upstream into the GNU Screen repository (+documentation update).
We're now in 2012. It looks like there might be a stable release of GNU Screen in the near future, which makes my code live "for real", but in the meantime the recent snapshot upload to Debian Experimental makes it available to the brave.
2008 - 2012. Four years to make my change visible to end-users. If I didn't use screen every day, and still have my own local version, I'd have forgotten about that entirely.
Still I guess this makes today a happy day!
Wheee!
ObQuote: "Thanks. For a while there I thought you were keeping it a secret. " - Escape To Victory