> Hi all. I'm running GNU Screen on Cygwin on one laptop, and on Debian Linux > on > another. (I may switch to tmux one day, as it works much like screen but is > newer. But I don't think Cygwin ships tmux binaries.) > > I want to use a single-keystroke escape key in Screen. Because I almost never > have more than ten windows open, this will make it easier for me to view each > open window in sequence, from 0 to 9, until I find the one I'm looking for. > > I've tried the backquote (`) key but I don't like it. The key's position is > different on each of my laptops. This is confusing.
I use the backquote key, because it seems to have the best combination of least-used and most consistently placed in an easy position to reach. On my desktop keyboard it's actually a double-sized key, although almost never used outside of screen. To use the backquote as the escape key I just put escape `~ in my .screenrc. I wasn't aware of tmux but will take a look at it. It might not be hard to package for Cygwin. I see that it depends on libevent - if that can be packaged for Cygwin, then probably tmux can too. Andrew. _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users