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Micah Cowan wrote: > broz wrote: >> Hi, >> i have a question about gnuscreen which I think is great btw. I >> may have a hard time conveying what I want to know, but here goes: > >> I currently use nano as my editor (within gnuscreen of course). I can >> have multiple files open in it, and can switch to the next one with the >> M-. (or M-<) key. Is there some way to have screen send that key as >> a control, not as text? I tried register-process escaping but can't get >> the hang of it... > > I'm having trouble what you're asking. In terminals, virtually > _everything_ is text: controls certainly are. The only things that can > be done that aren't some variety of "sending text" are changing the stty > values, and sending SIGWINCH to inform an app that the window size has > changed. > > Perhaps you should explain what screen is currently doing that you don't > want it to do? > > In terminals, M-. is either sent as the escape character (ESC) followed > by a period, or else by sending the period character but with its > highest bit set instead of unset (0xAE instead of 0x2E). Hardly anyone > does that anymore, though, because it interferes with character > encodings, so ESC . is the norm. > > That's what your terminal would generally send to nano, with or without > screen. Is something else going on? > - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer. GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkk4G2AACgkQ7M8hyUobTrHvtgCeNVEXevUAY7zPMsE7xIaHBrCZ MLcAn1AewCZSLG5B5vcKYQgdMZ0k94Er =h4jq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
