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--- man:string_escapes [2010-01-21 23:35]
asciiphil Page moved from string_escapes to man:string_escapes
+++ man:string_escapes [2021-02-19 20:07] (current)
asciiphil old revision restored (2010-01-25 13:48)
@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 ===== String Escapes =====
-[//Copied pretty much verbatim from the man page.//]
 Screen provides an escape mechanism to insert information like the current
 time into messages or file names.  The escape character is '%' with one
-exception: inside of a windows hardstatus '^%' ('^E') is used instead.
+exception: inside of a window's hardstatus '^%' ('^E') is used instead.
 Here is the full list of supported escapes:
@@ Line 16: / Line 14: @@
 | d | day number |
 | D | weekday name |
-| f | flags of the window |
+| f | flags of the window (see [[:Window Flags]]) |
 | F | sets %? to true if the window has the focus |
 | h | hardstatus of the window |
@@ Line 37: / Line 35: @@
 | > | mark the current text position for the next truncation.  When screen needs to do truncation, it tries to do it in a way that the marked position gets moved to the specified percentage of the output area.  (The area starts from the last absolute pad position and ends with the position specified by the truncation operator.)  The 'L' qualifier tells screen to mark the truncated parts with '...'. |
 | { | attribute/color modifier string terminated by the next '}' |
-| ` | Substitute  with the output of a 'backtick' command.  The length qualifier is misused to identify one of the commands. |
+| ` | Substitute  with the output of a '[[commands:backtick]]' command.  The length qualifier is misused to identify one of the commands. |
 The 'c' and 'C' escape may be qualified with a '0' to make screen use zero
@@ Line 45: / Line 43: @@
 long names, 'w' and 'W' also show the window flags if 'L' is given.
-For more information about the '=', '<', and '>' escapes, please see [[:truncation_padding_escapes]].
+<box 80% blue | :!: See also>
+[[:Truncation/padding escapes]] has more information about the '=', '<', and '>' escapes.
+</box>
 An attribute/color modifier is is used to change the attributes or the

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