Emacs-friendly bindings for /usr/bin/screen?

Emacs-friendly bindings for /usr/bin/screen?

[J Krugman]

I was wondering if anyone would be so kind as to post a set of key
bindings for the program screen that do not interfere too much with
Emacs.  (The default screen key bindings start off on the wrong
foot with Emacs' "beginning-of-line" [C-a] as its command key.)

Thanks!

	-Jill

Re: Emacs-friendly bindings for /usr/bin/screen?

[Jim Ottaway]

>>>>> J Krugman <jill_krugman@yahoo.com> writes:

> I was wondering if anyone would be so kind as to post a set of key
> bindings for the program screen that do not interfere too much with
> Emacs.  (The default screen key bindings start off on the wrong
> foot with Emacs' "beginning-of-line" [C-a] as its command key.)

I set the command key to C-t instead, since I use transpose-chars less
frequently than beginning-of-line. 

In .screenrc:

escape ^Tt

If I need to transpose, it's just C-tt

[and C-t is the default in ratpoison, the screen-like window manager,
so it's handy to have the same key binding in both]

Regards,

Jim Ottaway

Re: Emacs-friendly bindings for /usr/bin/screen?

[V. L. Simpson]

J Krugman <jill_krugman@yahoo.com> writes:

> I was wondering if anyone would be so kind as to post a set of key
> bindings for the program screen that do not interfere too much with
> Emacs.  (The default screen key bindings start off on the wrong
> foot with Emacs' "beginning-of-line" [C-a] as its command key.)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 	-Jill

Put this in your .screenrc:
escape ``  (That's two backtick characters.)

Now you just hit " ` some-screen-key " to run screen commands.(No double 
quotes obviously)  C-a will now work properly for emacs.

You can use any two characters after the escape option.  I use the
backtick because I have little use for it in day-to-day editing.
 
Have fun,
vls

Re: Emacs-friendly bindings for /usr/bin/screen?

[Reiner Steib]

On Mon, Aug 04 2003, J Krugman wrote:

> (The default screen key bindings start off on the wrong foot with
> Emacs' "beginning-of-line" [C-a] as its command key.)

See `escape xy' in screen(1).

Bye, Reiner.
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Re: Emacs-friendly bindings for /usr/bin/screen?

[J Krugman]

Thanks for the suggestions.  I'm trying `` and ^Tt out, though it
looks like ^Tt is the one I will end up using (I use backticks a
fair bit when I work on the shell).

I also got rid of the ^X and x bindings, that were invoking lockscreen
on me!

	-Jill