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From: Peter Keller <psilord@cs.wisc.edu>
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Jonathan Groll <lists@groll.co.za> wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 15:07:50 +0000 (UTC), Peter Keller <psilord@cs.wisc.edu> wrote:
>> > Also, what were you writting in .screenrc?  'term xterm' or 'term "xterm"'
>> > with double quotes?  To me 'term "xterm"' gives the right value of the
>> > $TERM variable.
>> 
> 
> Unrelated to Peter's problem (which appears to be solved) I've got
> other screen & emacs questions for the list:
> 
> (1) I'm curious to know what other Emacs users have as their escape
> sequence in screen, as the default C-a means losing an oft-used emacs
> key combination.
> 
> Currently I have the tilde:
> escape ~~
> 
> But previously used to use C-z:
> escape ^za
> 
> What does eveyone else use?

I use CTRL-] instead of CTRL-a because noone uses telnet anymore. :)

-pete