Bug#280457: xterm: want terminal contents (and scrollback?) saved when X connection lost

[Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>]

On Sun, 5 Jun 2011, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> On 2011-06-03 11:48:03 +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> > which was filed against the xterm package:
> >
> > #280457: xterm: want terminal contents (and scrollback?) saved when X connection lost
> >
> > It has been closed by Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>.
> [...]
> > Changes:
> >  xterm (270-1) unstable; urgency=low
> >  .
> >    * New upstream release:
> >      - Add printModeOnXError and printFileOnXError resources, which allow
> >        the user to specify that xterm will write the contents of its screen
> >        to a file if it is exiting due to an X error (Closes: #280457).
> [...]
>
> Thanks, but I wonder whether it is intentional to have a fixed
> filename, as if one has several xterm windows open to the same
> server and the X connection is lost, only one window will be
> saved to the file. One can use a wrapper, though, e.g.:

I could extend it, e.g., by looking for "|" or ">" at the beginning, to 
specify a file or a pipe.  Also, I could extend it by making that a 
printf/mktime template, to provide the timestamp and whatever directly.
At the moment, I'm not sure which is the most useful.

(I considered a dialog, but realized that wouldn't work for the general X 
error case).

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