Your Startup Sucks

Saved Windows with GNU Screen

I seem to have a certain affinity for obscene numbers of local screen windows. Rather than do all my development remotely or in a VM, I’ve put together a simple little hack so I can get back to work with a minimum of ^A-c.

The script allows you to quickly re-open any number of screen windows, grouped by name. You tell the script what to do using a simple configuration file consisting of multiple sections delineated by psuedo-tags, each containing a list of commands to run in separate screen windows.

For instance,

<design>
  vim -o pretty.css -o index.html -c 'vsplit ugly.js'
  emacs just.html kidding.html
  compass watch
</design> 

# here's a comment; incidentally, blank lines are okay too. 
<debug>
  vim -o lol.asm pwn.c
  vim some-other-file.c
  ./run-server local
</debug> 

To spawn screen with the requested windows, simply chant:

./work.bash debug

And that’s it.