From: Jonathan Groll <lists@groll.co.za>
To: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Alternate binding for C-a
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 19:44:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090401174425.GJ2532@groll.co.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7cwsa4oi18.fsf@pbourguignon.anevia.com>
On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 11:11:15AM +0200, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
>willwillis <will.willis@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I've attempted several times to change C-a ( beginning-of-line ) to M-a. Does
>> anyone know the elisp I'd need to put in my .emacs to make this change?
>>
>> (yes, I use screen if you were wondering why'd I'd want to do such a thing)
>
>In screen, type: C-a :escape ^Z^Z RET (type caret and Z, caret and Z)
>This change screen's escape to C-z, which is bound to
>iconify-or-deiconify-frame, useless in screen.
>
I personally find this binding works best in my ~/.screenrc :
#Press backtick twice if you want a backtick, else its the command character
escape ``
Cheers,
Jonathan
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2009-04-01 9:11 ` Alternate binding for C-a Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-04-01 17:44 ` Jonathan Groll [this message]
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2009-04-02 3:57 ` poppyer
2009-04-01 1:56 willwillis
2009-04-01 7:44 ` Tassilo Horn
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