[Novalug] March Topic?
American Dave
novalug@soupy.org
Tue Feb 17 16:13:57 EST 2009
> Gee, if we can put detach into the shell, then the reason for screen
> goes away too. There is always the Virtual Consoles and OpenVT.
GNU Screen has many uses, only one of which is its detach ability. Splitting windows, cut and paste without a mouse between windows, ability for multiple users to share the same Screen session, multiple instances of Screen with independent windows, etc, etc, etc.
Screen is a valuable tool that I wouldn't want to live without.
> The problem is that Screen steals the ^A key...and that's Too Valuable
> to give up. Yeah, you can change it....
echo "escape ^Xa" >> ~/.screenrc
-A. Dave
This email written from Mutt within Screen
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