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GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal

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Post by soundphed » Mon, Sep 28, 2009, 5:36 PM UTC

GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal
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Re: GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal

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Post by dryicerx » Mon, Sep 28, 2009, 5:56 PM UTC

I don't think I can live without it anymore.

There is no reason why you shouldn't use screen when ssh'ing in and working on remote machines, it will save you tons of time in case the connection goes down, plus allows your to keep a persistent working environment on remote boxes.

    ssh -t user@host screen -rx

That will drop you immediately to a running screen on connect

Re: GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal

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Post by wglb » Mon, Sep 28, 2009, 6:05 PM UTC

Highly valuable.

See http://renesd.blogspot.com/2009/09/screen-for-ghetto-servers... for more pointers.

Re: GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal

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Post by elbenshira » Mon, Sep 28, 2009, 6:27 PM UTC

Screen uses C-a as its "command" character. Unfortunately, C-a means "go to start of line" in emacs and terminals. The solution?

In your .screenrc file:

    escape ^Ww

This will default C-w as the command character.

Re: GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal

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Post by btw0 » Mon, Sep 28, 2009, 6:27 PM UTC

I recently found BSD implementation -- tmux better than GNU screen.

Re: GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal

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Post by cschep » Mon, Sep 28, 2009, 6:32 PM UTC

elbenshira wrote: post #4

Screen uses C-a as its "command" character. Unfortunately, C-a means "go to start of line" in emacs and terminals. The solution? In your .screenrc file: escape ^Ww This will default C-w as the command character.

Isn't C-w kill-region in emacs? I recently came up against this problem too, but what else to change it to .. ?

Re: GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal

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Post by JeremyChase » Mon, Sep 28, 2009, 6:34 PM UTC

Screen is an amazingly useful tool. If you aren't using it or something like it, you are really making life more difficult for yourself.

If you want something that isn't GNU or GPL'd, take a look at `tmux`.

Re: GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal

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Post by tome » Mon, Sep 28, 2009, 6:39 PM UTC

btw0 wrote: post #5

I recently found BSD implementation -- tmux better than GNU screen.

Better in what way?

Re: GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Sep 28, 2009, 6:40 PM UTC

cschep wrote: post #6

elbenshira wrote: post #4

Screen uses C-a as its "command" character. Unfortunately, C-a means "go to start of line" in emacs and terminals. The solution? In your .screenrc file: escape ^Ww This will default C-w as the command character.

Isn't C-w kill-region in emacs? I recently came up against this problem too, but what else to change it to .. ?

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Re: GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal

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Post by jherdman » Mon, Sep 28, 2009, 6:40 PM UTC

cschep wrote: post #6

elbenshira wrote: post #4

Screen uses C-a as its "command" character. Unfortunately, C-a means "go to start of line" in emacs and terminals. The solution? In your .screenrc file: escape ^Ww This will default C-w as the command character.

Isn't C-w kill-region in emacs? I recently came up against this problem too, but what else to change it to .. ?

I'm using C-z, but it's sort of an awkward key to use.