Dave Mielke <d...@mielke.cc> writes: > [quoted lines by Mario Lang on 2019/11/01 at 19:40 +0100] > >>Trying to switch from screen to tmux, I notice that the command prompt >>(^B :) does not use the hardware cursor. screen does use the hardware >>cursor for the same kind of functionality. > > Which functionality? Is ^B supposed to have a special meaning? Do you mean a > caret (circumflex) followed by a B or do you mean Ctrl-B?
screen and tmux both have a so-called prefix-key. In screen, that is Ctrl+a (sometimes written as ^a) and tmux uses Ctrl+b (I lazily just wrote ^B). That keybinding is the prefix to all predefined bindings in screen and tmux. Since both do roughly the same thing, prefix followed by a colon (:) invokes the command prompt. This will print a prompt character in the last line of the screen, and allows the user to enter commands which might not be bound to a specific key combination. In screen, that command prompt uses the hardware cursor, while tmux uses a text attribute to manually draw the editing cursor. -- CYa, ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕ _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@brltty.app For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty
