one of these days i'm going to rewrite the Telnet Song <http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1419.html> about screen. i just need to figure out how to get "control a d" to scan to "control up-arrow q". :)
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 3:42 AM, Pia Mikeal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Rich Boyce wrote: > >>> ^a a d >>> where ^ denotes the control key. >> >> Bingo! Nested screens seems to be what I was after, and works for me. I >> tried nested screens before, but didn't know about the ^a-a-d to control the >> nested screen session, so I could only control the top-level screen. This is >> perfect. >> > > You can nest screens quite deep. Just add an extra "a" for the control > character for each screen you are nested deep, and this works for all screen > commands. So just as ^a d detaches one level deep, ^a a d two levels, ^a a > a d would detach 3 levels deep. Likewise, to open a new window in a screen > one level deep ^a c and a window in a screen two levels deep such as the > remote screen you were talking about here would be ^a a c > >> >> Certainly does! Thanks very much, > > You are welcome! I am glad to help! > > > Pia Mikeal > System Administrator > Markey Center for Structural Biology > Purdue University > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (765)496-6781 > > > _______________________________________________ > screen-users mailing list > screen-users@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users > -- Aaron Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
