A busy few hours last night hacking at tscreen, and again today.

I'm now very pleased with the functional aliases:

#
#  Caption toggle
#
alias caption_off  eval "caption splitonly"
alias caption_on   eval "caption always"

#
#  Status toggle
#
alias status_off   eval "hardstatus ignore"
alias status_on    eval "hardstatus alwayslastline"

#
#  Disable both caption and status, and show a message.
#
alias fullscreen   eval "status_off" "caption_off" "echo 'fullscreen'"
alias captioned    eval "status_on"  "caption_on"  "echo 'captioned' "

#
#  Bind these functions to keys
#
bind f eval fullscreen
bind F eval captioned

I've made binary & source packages of a slightly earlier version of the code available for Etch and Sid - both AMD64 - and I'll release another update once I can drop the need for that eval usage in the "bind" and add TAB completion for aliases.

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