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I have once again found minor enlightenment and am already more productive because of it. Its nice when procrastinating on HN turns into a net win!
You might want to consider tmux ( http://tmux.sourceforge.net/ ) as an alternative. Its cleaner (and, incidentally, BSD-licensed) codebase means that it's getting features that have been gathering dust on screen's to-do list for ages. Most notably, its dwm/XMonad-style layouts ( http://tmux.sourceforge.net/tmux6.png ) are really nice. AFAICT, screen doesn't even officially have vertically split windows yet, it's stil…
You might want to consider tmux ( http://tmux.sourceforge.net/ ) as an alternative. Its cleaner (and, incidentally, BSD-licensed) codebase means that it's getting features that have been gathering dust on screen's to-do list for ages. Most notably, its dwm/XMonad-style layouts ( http://tmux.sourceforge.net/tmux6.png ) are really nice. AFAICT, screen doesn't even officially have vertically split windows yet, it's stil…
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 .. ?
But no, seriously, screen is one of the more useful programs I've ever used. I have a screen session running on a server somewhere, and just log into it from whatever terminal I happen to be using at the time. It's pretty much the best.
You might want to consider tmux ( http://tmux.sourceforge.net/ ) as an alternative. Its cleaner (and, incidentally, BSD-licensed) codebase means that it's getting features that have been gathering dust on screen's to-do list for ages. Most notably, its dwm/XMonad-style layouts ( http://tmux.sourceforge.net/tmux6.png ) are really nice. AFAICT, screen doesn't even officially have vertically split windows yet, it's stil…
No offense, but how does it's BSD-licensed codebase mean that it 'gets more features'?
OpenBSD man page: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tmux
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`.
I'm just curious- Why would you want to specifically avoid the GPL?
Some people would rather support the BSD license instead.
Other people just don't care at all.
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`.
I'm just curious- Why would you want to specifically avoid the GPL?
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 .. ?