Hi, Although I don't use emacs, ctrl-a isn't a good choice as the 'escape' sequence for me either, as cisco devices use it in the same way. Because none of the control keys are really 'free', I have set my regular escape character to nothing at all using
escape "" I've bound the 'colon' command to F6, and use that for things I occasionally need and have no specific key bound to (or forgot the key that has it). bindkey -k k6 colon I did set up a way to access 'command' from the keyboard without having to type it in after pressing F6: bindkey "\033`" command # alt-` The idea is to press alt-backtick as a command sequence. If I'm at a terminal that for some reason won't sent an 'escape' character before the backtick when alt is held, I can still generate this sequence by hitting the escape key (top-left on the US-keyboard), immediately followed by the backtick (sharing a key with tilde just underneath escape and immediately to the left of 'one'. Actually, it is usually easier to do it that way, using only one finger, than using two fingers and pressing alt. E.g. going into scroll-back is just a quick flick between Esc, Backtick and Esc again. Regards, Pieter. _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
