On 2021-01-13, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 22:15:25 -0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> FWOW, if you really want backscrolling on the console, you can get >> that with screen, but doing so would drive me nuts, since I'd have to >> break all my fingers to stop them from typeing ctrl-A to move the >> start of a line. > > The decision to use Ctrl-A seems insane as it is such a well used key > combination. I used to change it to Ctrl-B, but now I use tmux, which > uses Ctrl-B by default.
Nope, ctrl-B is move-backwards-one-character. I really should try to figure out a control-character that's not used by emacs or the tty driver or ??? and assign that as the meta key in screen. Several times a week while I'm screen I'll forget about ctrl-A not working and get puzzled why my command lines are mangled. -- Grant
