On Thursday 17 December 2009 3:24:20 am Chris Jones wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 01:28:50AM EST, Alexander Steinert wrote: > > Chris Jones, Tue 2009-12-15 23:45 CET: > > > Maybe the new feature was not necessary after all, since it's quite > > > possible to acquire the habit of hitting '^A m' when coming back to > > > one's screen session, as in "now, let's see.. where was I".. > > > > ^G is much more helpful, IMHO, assuming that you don't have an > > application running where that could be "harmful". > > I agree.. although I can't think of any applications I run on a regular > basis taking 'g' as a command, apart from ELinks, where it pops up a > dialog prompting you for a URL, it feels like an accident to happen. > > Unless you go through all your favorite applications and remap 'g' to > displaying a message such as "no.. you are not in screen's copy mode", > naturally :-) >
Doing '^A [' should either get you into copy mode (which can be promptly exited with '[') or, if already on copy mode, tells you "Must be on a window layer". _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
