move to line beginning without 'Ctrl+A'

move to line beginning without 'Ctrl+A'

[ilovemiami]

Is there anyway to move to line beginning without 'Ctrl+A'. I am using
'screen', the key binding 'Ctrl+A' is reserved by 'screen'.

Thanks in advance.

Re: move to line beginning without 'Ctrl+A'

[Ralf Angeli]

* ilovemiami (2008-01-21) writes:

> Is there anyway to move to line beginning without 'Ctrl+A'. I am using
> 'screen', the key binding 'Ctrl+A' is reserved by 'screen'.

C-a a

-- 
Ralf

Re: move to line beginning without 'Ctrl+A'

[Xah Lee]

ilovemiami <zongju...@gmail.com> wrote:
「Is there anyway to move to line beginning without 'Ctrl+A'. I am
using 'screen', the key binding 'Ctrl+A' is reserved by 'screen'.」

you can use the Home key. Or, you can define your own. e.g.

(global-set-key (kbd "M-a") 'move-beginning-of-line)

see:

★ Defining Your Own Keyboard Shortcuts
http://xahlee.org/emacs/keyboard_shortcuts.html

★ A Ergonomic Keyboard Shortcut Layout
http://xahlee.org/emacs/ergonomic_emacs_keybinding.html

  Xah
  xah@xahlee.org
\xAD\xF4 http://xahlee.org/

Re: move to line beginning without 'Ctrl+A'

[Oleg Katsitadze]

On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 10:09:06PM -0800, ilovemiami wrote:
> Is there anyway to move to line beginning without 'Ctrl+A'. I am using
> 'screen', the key binding 'Ctrl+A' is reserved by 'screen'.

Some people like to change screen's command key instead.  Good
candidates seem to be Z or ].

Cheers,
Oleg

Re: move to line beginning without 'Ctrl+A'

[ilovemiami]

On Jan 21, 2:55 pm, Oleg Katsitadze <oleg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 10:09:06PM -0800, ilovemiami wrote:
> > Is there anyway to move to line beginning without 'Ctrl+A'. I am using
> > 'screen', the key binding 'Ctrl+A' is reserved by 'screen'.
>
> Some people like to change screen's command key instead.  Good
> candidates seem to be Z or ].
>
> Cheers,
> Oleg

Yes, that is a good option. I just switch screen command character to
'C-P'. It works!

Thanks everyone for help.

Re: move to line beginning without 'Ctrl+A'

[Bastien]

ilovemiami <zongjunhu@gmail.com> writes:

> On Jan 21, 2:55 pm, Oleg Katsitadze <oleg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 10:09:06PM -0800, ilovemiami wrote:
>> > Is there anyway to move to line beginning without 'Ctrl+A'. I am using
>> > 'screen', the key binding 'Ctrl+A' is reserved by 'screen'.
>>
>> Some people like to change screen's command key instead.  Good
>> candidates seem to be Z or ].
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Oleg
>
> Yes, that is a good option. I just switch screen command character to
> 'C-P'. It works!

May I ask you what line in ~/.screenrc does that?  

-- 
Bastien

Re: move to line beginning without 'Ctrl+A'

[Barry Margolin]

In article 
<7df997d8-6238-4111-87c3-a12ccd888fa4@i3g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
 ilovemiami <zongjunhu@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 21, 2:55 pm, Oleg Katsitadze <oleg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 10:09:06PM -0800, ilovemiami wrote:
> > > Is there anyway to move to line beginning without 'Ctrl+A'. I am using
> > > 'screen', the key binding 'Ctrl+A' is reserved by 'screen'.
> >
> > Some people like to change screen's command key instead.  Good
> > candidates seem to be Z or ].
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Oleg
> 
> Yes, that is a good option. I just switch screen command character to
> 'C-P'. It works!

I guess you must use arrow keys a lot, since that's the Emacs keybinding 
to move to the previous line.

When I used screen on a regular basis, I used C-\ as its escape 
character.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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Re: move to line beginning without 'Ctrl+A'

[Oleg Katsitadze]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 09:10:55PM +0000, Bastien wrote:
> > Yes, that is a good option. I just switch screen command character to
> > 'C-P'. It works!
> 
> May I ask you what line in ~/.screenrc does that?  

I have this:

  escape ^]]


which means C-] for the command key, C-] ] for the literal C-].

Cheers,
Oleg

Re: move to line beginning without 'Ctrl+A'

[Bastien]

Oleg Katsitadze <olegkat@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 09:10:55PM +0000, Bastien wrote:
>> > Yes, that is a good option. I just switch screen command character to
>> > 'C-P'. It works!
>> 
>> May I ask you what line in ~/.screenrc does that?  
>
> I have this:
>
>   escape ^]]
>
> which means C-] for the command key, C-] ] for the literal C-].

Thanks very much!

-- 
Bastien

Re: move to line beginning without 'Ctrl+A'

[ilovemiami]

escape ^Pp

Bastien wrote:
> ilovemiami <zongjunhu@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Jan 21, 2:55 pm, Oleg Katsitadze <oleg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 10:09:06PM -0800, ilovemiami wrote:
> >> > Is there anyway to move to line beginning without 'Ctrl+A'. I am using
> >> > 'screen', the key binding 'Ctrl+A' is reserved by 'screen'.
> >>
> >> Some people like to change screen's command key instead.  Good
> >> candidates seem to be Z or ].
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Oleg
> >
> > Yes, that is a good option. I just switch screen command character to
> > 'C-P'. It works!
>
> May I ask you what line in ~/.screenrc does that?
>
> --
> Bastien

Re: move to line beginning without 'Ctrl+A'

[Edward]

ilovemiami wrote:
> Is there anyway to move to line beginning without 'Ctrl+A'. I am using
> 'screen', the key binding 'Ctrl+A' is reserved by 'screen'.
>
> Thanks in advance.

I hardly ever use C-a.  Most of the time I use M-m.

Ref:
M-m runs the command back-to-indentation.
Move point to the first non-whitespace character on this line.

Edward

Re: move to line beginning without 'Ctrl+A'

[Stefan Arentz]

ilovemiami <zongjunhu@gmail.com> writes:

> Is there anyway to move to line beginning without 'Ctrl+A'. I am using
> 'screen', the key binding 'Ctrl+A' is reserved by 'screen'.

I simply configured screen to use C-p as it's hotkey instead :-)

 S.

Re: move to line beginning without 'Ctrl+A'

[Stefan Monnier]

> When I used screen on a regular basis, I used C-\ as its escape 
> character.

That one's used for input-methods.  I used to use C-^ for screen.


        Stefan

Re: move to line beginning without 'Ctrl+A'

[Barry Margolin]

In article <jwv4pd4y2w6.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org>,
 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> > When I used screen on a regular basis, I used C-\ as its escape 
> > character.
> 
> That one's used for input-methods.  I used to use C-^ for screen.

I don't think input-methods existed yet when I was doing this....

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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