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Perhaps not, but tmux's bindings are nearly all backwards-compatible with screen's. Well, the default escape char is ctrl-B but I (and I think most folks) just remap it to ctrl-A immediately.
How do people use CTRL-A for screen without being driven batty that the emacs-style 'start-of-line' command is not available? I use that constantly!
I'm not sure why, but it was a while before I ran across du -h. Not sure how I ever did without it! Oh, and "sudo !!". Definitely key, along with "& disown".
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How do people use CTRL-A for screen without being driven batty that the emacs-style 'start-of-line' command is not available? I use that constantly!
People rebind it. I bind it to ^o. # put this in your .screenrc escape ^Oo
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I'm baffled all the time by the lack of clear examples on many manpages.
Yep, a short list of useful one-liners would go a long way. Often, your use-case will be a straight specialisation of one of the examples, and if not, chances are you can cobble together something from several examples. I'd like to have a auxiliary help command for this, e.g. example ffmpeg in addition to man ffmpeg (another 18k words manpage). Edit: This works rather well: function cmdfu() { curl "http://www.command…
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Perhaps not, but tmux's bindings are nearly all backwards-compatible with screen's. Well, the default escape char is ctrl-B but I (and I think most folks) just remap it to ctrl-A immediately.
How do people use CTRL-A for screen without being driven batty that the emacs-style 'start-of-line' command is not available? I use that constantly!
It works because I have my shell configured to use vi mode for command line editing.
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Perhaps not, but tmux's bindings are nearly all backwards-compatible with screen's. Well, the default escape char is ctrl-B but I (and I think most folks) just remap it to ctrl-A immediately.
How do people use CTRL-A for screen without being driven batty that the emacs-style 'start-of-line' command is not available? I use that constantly!
This can be mimicked by brace expansion: cp /dir/dir/dir/dir/{filename,newfilename}
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How do people use CTRL-A for screen without being driven batty that the emacs-style 'start-of-line' command is not available? I use that constantly!
People rebind it. I bind it to ^o. # put this in your .screenrc escape ^Oo