So I tried it out and it fixes my 2 pet peeves of screen. 1. The defaults are sane (altscreen is on by default, emacs keys in copy mode by default, no stupid "

So I tried it out and it fixes my 2 pet peeves of screen. 1. The defaults are sane (altscreen is on by default, emacs keys in copy mode by default, no stupid "wuff wuff" covering up my prompt, history is 2000 lines instead screen's almost useless 100). 2. Screen sometimes interacts badly with Terminal.app on my mac. I can't run aptitude from within screen on my mac without it randomly switching to graphic charset mode. Also running emacs inside screen sometime results in the arrow keys not working. I like it so far. I think I'll switch for a while and see how it goes...