From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jonathan Groll Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Alternate binding for C-a Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 19:44:25 +0200 Message-ID: <20090401174425.GJ2532@groll.co.za> References: <7cwsa4oi18.fsf@pbourguignon.anevia.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1238607930 16821 80.91.229.12 (1 Apr 2009 17:45:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 17:45:30 +0000 (UTC) To: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 01 19:46:48 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lp4WT-0007YN-NS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:46:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34337 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lp4V6-0004Hf-2X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:45:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lp4UL-00040I-Lh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:44:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lp4UG-0003wL-IY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:44:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52995 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lp4UG-0003w8-7j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:44:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.groll.co.za ([67.18.176.185]:41598) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lp4UF-0006Nk-Ru for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:44:28 -0400 Original-Received: by mail.groll.co.za (Postfix, from userid 1004) id B3EE8757F5; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 19:44:25 +0200 (SAST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7cwsa4oi18.fsf@pbourguignon.anevia.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (Linux mail 2.6.18.8-linode16 i686) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:63436 Archived-At: On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 11:11:15AM +0200, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: >willwillis 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