After running a single session of screen for a long time, I often find that I have several gaps in the numerical ordering of windows. Using :number is definitely feasible, but it takes a bit more effort than I’d care to contribute every time I want to make my windows contiguously numbered.

I’ve created a patch against CVS HEAD to fill in the holes of the window numbering. It simply moves windows to lower positions until there are no holes left. Any (constructive) comments are welcome.

The patch can be found here. It was also sent to the screen-devel mailing list.