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Indeed. I've been using Ctrl-\ as my Ctrl-a in screen (and occasionally tmux). Turns out that I never use that keystroke in real life.
by jzawodn 13y ago
Indeed. I've been using Ctrl-\ as my Ctrl-a in screen (and occasionally tmux). Turns out that I never use that keystroke in real life.
- graywh 13y agoI use ctrl-_. In many terminals you can generate it with ctrl + 7 and/or ctrl + ?.
- c0un7d0wn 13y agoI've been using `
- w1ntermute 13y agoSame here. It's really hard to press if you don't swap Ctrl and Caps Lock though.
- c0un7d0wn 13y agoNo key chords, just left pinkie, why would it be so hard?
- w1ntermute 13y agoMy bad, I thought you meant Ctrl + `
- brianpgordon 13y agoFor me ` is taken by tilda: https://github.com/lanoxx/tilda https://github.com/lanoxx/tilda
- Nick_C 13y agoI use the Windows Menu key (the Windows key to the right of the spacebar) for that. Except I use yeahconsole, which is the same concept without the Gnome dependencies. Such a handy feature, isn't it. I would be lost without my drop-down console.
- bphogan 13y agoI'd always used Ctrl-a in screen because it was the default. When I moved to tmux I just moved it there, but tmux lets me send the Ctrl-a key sequence through to those apps. So if I want to go to the beginning of a line in Bash, I just press C-a C-a (which actually works if I hold down Ctrl and press 'a' twice. Not a big deal at all, and since I remap Caps Lock to Ctrl, the command combo is right on my left hand. (I slide my hand over a bit as if I were playing guitar or piano, rather than stretch fingers, so pinky on CapsLock, ring finger on a.)
- gbog 13y agoYou should, ctrl-\ is the best process killer. No way to escape from xtail without it, for instance. And sometime it will help getting out of python scripts like nosetests.
- Goladus 13y agoctrl-\ here, too. The guy introduced me to screen recommended it. His words were "if you're an emacs guy, having this mapped to ctrl-a is going to drive you crazy"
- oahziur 13y agoAgreed, I will be crazy if I use ctrl-a. Also it conflict with start of line of default bash settings
- oahziur 13y agoI use Ctrl-o as my key bind for tmux. Maybe Ctrl-\ is a better choice for me, since Ctrl-o conflict with something that I does not always using.
- 1amzave 13y agoI've been doing the same for a while, despite the fact that C-\ is in fact sort of already "taken" by default (SIGQUIT). That's not something I use often, but when I want it it's still easy enough to get by just sending C-\ twice. The only downside is occasionally (whether by accidental double-triggering or hitting C-\ out of habit when not actually running screen) killing foreground processes by mistake.
- metabrew 13y agoIsn't that siginfo? You can send it to ping on linux to print a report line without terminating, for example.