On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Gregor Zattler wrote:
Hi Michael, screen users,
* Michael Grant [24. Apr. 2013]:
I don't know if it would work but maybe you could bind screen to use an
obscure unicode character
no luck. Screen is not utf aware on this level. I used to use "°" but
with the switch to
Hi Michael, screen users,
* Michael Grant [24. Apr. 2013]:
> I don't know if it would work but maybe you could bind screen to use an
> obscure unicode character
no luck. Screen is not utf aware on this level. I used to use
"°" but with the switch to utf8 -terminal it did not work any
more. I
Personally I use ctrl-^ as my screen escape character. This seems to be
the one character that doesn't get in the way of anything for me.
You definitely want to change it from ctrl-a because this is beginning of
line in emacs and many shells such as tcsh and bash. Hard for me to
imagine why this
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 03:43:09PM +0100, Joe Corneli wrote:
> From looking back at the archives (all the way to 1987), I see that ^A
> has been the default command key for Screen from the beginning. I
> know that this can be changed on a per-user or even per installation
> basis, but I'm wonderin
Note further: rather than make this a compile-time configuration
option, why not use the opportunity presented by the "splash screen"
to allow people to choose:
[Press Space or Return to end.]
could be replaced by:
[Press Space for legacy command binding (C-a) or Return for a more
modern command
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Per user, yes, but not generally. Screen's C-a is hardwired in too many
> people's finger muscles.
There should be some way to "grandfather in" the old default, while
migrating towards a new setting. Consider the comparison case:
mainstream
Hi,
[Warning: Long post! TL;DR: Ctrl + ASCII character below 0x3F
generally don't seem to work as default binding. The post also
contains a bunch of working suggestions, partially from what similar
programs use, including where they clash with Emacs or shell
keybindings. :-]
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013
Joe Corneli writes:
>>From looking back at the archives (all the way to 1987), I see that ^A
> has been the default command key for Screen from the beginning. I
> know that this can be changed on a per-user or even per installation
> basis, but I'm wondering whether that's the best approach, sin
