On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:38:51PM EDT, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > On Thu, 28 May 2009, Albert Vilella wrote: > > >Hi,
> >I've got a screen session with about a dozen of terminals, and a > >couple of them are basically unresponsive. I can navigate to them in > >screen, but they don't respond. Is there a way to kill them or hide > >them so that they don't show up when navigating down to all my > >terminals? > > Ctrl-a K, when on the unresponsive screen, or ctrl-a, :kill [enter]. > > The manpage says this: > > Note: Emacs users should keep this command in mind, when killing a > line. It is recommended not to use "C-a" as the screen escape key or > to rebind kill to "C-a K". Well, actually the built-in default mapping for the "kill" command appears to be: Ctrl-a Ctrl-k If you are in a shell that uses emacs-style keybindings and type some command at the prompt you could issue a Ctrl-a to make the cursor move to the beginning of the line and follow up with a Ctrl-k to delete to the end of the line. With the default key bindings, gnu/screen would intercept this sequence and bring up the "Really kill this window y/n" prompt. The way to work around this issue as recommended by the manual is either not to use Ctrl-a as your screen escape key or to rebind kill to something else, such as "Shift-k". > But that is what it came bound to by default on my system. Perhaps > outdated docs? Possibly because your .screenrc has something like this: # remove dangerous keybindings bind ^k # bind Ctrl-k to nothing # replace them with safer ones bind 'K' kill # bind Shift-k to kill command If I am guessing correctly, this may be because the screenrc templates that ship with screen usually have such bind commands? If you do not have these bind commands in your ~/.screenrc, check the "CUSTOMIZATION" paragraph in the manual for other locations where screen looks for screenrc files. In any case, it appears that the doc is correct, if possibly a little cryptic. CJ _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
