comment is_new_screen()

[muttjump] / muttjump

diff --git a/muttjump b/muttjump
index db2f3adb32f7a328fec6803585c248eaf579a57e..73c6bc104b78fb6d5b8313cbd1c7ffce144d22c4 100755 (executable)
--- a/muttjump
+++ b/muttjump
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ if ! type MUTTJUMP_SCREEN_WINDOW_NAME_MANGLE >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
 fi
 
 # Version of GNU screen
-# Since 4.01.00devel (commit d87a0d8) backslash handling was altered.
+# Since 4.01.00devel (commit 98b6b41) backslash for -X handling was altered.
 MUTTJUMP_SCREEN_VERSION=${MUTTJUMP_SCREEN_VERSION:-auto}
 
 # program paths
@@ -78,6 +78,10 @@ function wc_L () {
     awk '{ y = length(); if (y > x) x = y } END { print x }'
 }
 
+# Check if screen is new enough to parse -X (commit 98b6b41) and support
+# -Q (commit 8147d08). It (falsely) assumes that screen version > 4.00
+# does this. Distributions that use git versions are likely to also keep
+# them up to date.
 function is_new_screen () {
     sv=$MUTTJUMP_SCREEN_VERSION
     if [ "$sv" = auto ] ; then