On Jan 15, 2007, at 10:25 AM, Peter da Silva wrote:
Screen is a solution to so much hate, yes, I just get so tired of "Woof Woof".
I can't stand that it wants to steal ctrl+A, which a decade of finger- memory with Pine / readline / Cocoa / etc has trained me to inextricably associate with "jump to start of the current line" rather than "dump into shocking & surprising meta-cmmand mode, completely eradicating your line of thought."
It's particularly fun as I usually don't realize I've jumped into "interact with screen" mode rather than "just plain typing", so I have to go back and re-read everything I had written to see if any of it survived intact. And since I'm usually reaching for ^A / ^E / etc style jump-around-the-line trickery when I'm trying to cope with a slow link, it gets all the better.
Yes, I fully realize that I could get around this by editing a ~/.screenrc, but software that gets off to such a bumpy, boneheaded start seems like a recipe for too much pain to be worth the trouble. I've managed without it so far, and I've yet to be convinced that it solves more hate than it generates...
-- Chris Devers
