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a happy screen user! it's a true game changer!

matt-attack 10y ago
Yep I've been using screen for many many years. It's one of those tools that entirely changed how I work. Still haven't had sufficient motivation to switch to tmux, since screen just works and I know all of its key bindings very well. FWIW, I've found that CTLR-j is the best choice for the primary escape sequence. As an emacs user CTRL-a was unacceptable as was pretty much CTRL-<everything else>.
- _kst_ 10y ago
  I use Ctrl-@, also known as Ctrl-Space or the null character. For another screen session that I run within a terminal in my main session (don't ask), I use Ctrl-]. (There's at least one keyboard/terminal setup that doesn't let me type the null character. When I use that, I temporarily change the escape character.)
- xenophonf 10y ago
  I use backquote (i.e., I have "escape ``" in my screenrc). For some reason this appeals to me more than a control sequence, which I blame on Emacs. For a long time I used Emacs under screen almost exclusively, and I was desperate for a screen command sequence that didn't conflict with Emacs---which ruled out almost all the control key combos. Reaching for the top corner of the keyboard to begin an escape sequence feels pretty natural to me because of my history with Emacs on terminals that don't support the Meta modifier, and backquote doesn't conflict with key bindings for the editing modes I typically use in Emacs. Backquote is used infrequently enough in other contexts for it to interrupt my typing, with the exception command interpolation. (I wish I could say I came up with it on my own, but it was actually a friend of mine who clued me in.)
  - rabidrat 10y ago
    I love backquote for the escape char. It's better than ctrl-anything because it's one less keypress and the location is one of the easiest to hit blindly from a UX perspective (even ESC is more of a reach).
- warp 10y ago
  I'm using ctrl-z. When in screen, I don't have to background stuff as often (as I typically just want to leave it running in the foreground and open a new buffer instead). But when I do want to send something to the background ctrl-z z just works.
- wprapido 10y ago
  actually i discovered it like a month ago

Yep I've been using screen for many many years. It's one of those tools that entirely changed how I work. Still haven't had sufficient motivation to switch to tmux, since screen just works and I know all of its key bindings very well. FWIW, I've found that CTLR-j is the best choice for the primary escape sequence. As an emacs user CTRL-a was unacceptable as was pretty much CTRL-<everything else>.

_kst_ 10y ago
I use Ctrl-@, also known as Ctrl-Space or the null character. For another screen session that I run within a terminal in my main session (don't ask), I use Ctrl-]. (There's at least one keyboard/terminal setup that doesn't let me type the null character. When I use that, I temporarily change the escape character.)
xenophonf 10y ago
I use backquote (i.e., I have "escape ``" in my screenrc). For some reason this appeals to me more than a control sequence, which I blame on Emacs. For a long time I used Emacs under screen almost exclusively, and I was desperate for a screen command sequence that didn't conflict with Emacs---which ruled out almost all the control key combos. Reaching for the top corner of the keyboard to begin an escape sequence feels pretty natural to me because of my history with Emacs on terminals that don't support the Meta modifier, and backquote doesn't conflict with key bindings for the editing modes I typically use in Emacs. Backquote is used infrequently enough in other contexts for it to interrupt my typing, with the exception command interpolation. (I wish I could say I came up with it on my own, but it was actually a friend of mine who clued me in.)
- rabidrat 10y ago
  I love backquote for the escape char. It's better than ctrl-anything because it's one less keypress and the location is one of the easiest to hit blindly from a UX perspective (even ESC is more of a reach).
warp 10y ago
I'm using ctrl-z. When in screen, I don't have to background stuff as often (as I typically just want to leave it running in the foreground and open a new buffer instead). But when I do want to send something to the background ctrl-z z just works.
wprapido 10y ago
actually i discovered it like a month ago