On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:48:28PM -0600, Sean Carolan wrote: > I like Gnu screen, but the choice of CTRL-A as the command sequence is > extremely unfortunate. Like many other bash users, I use CTRL-A to > get back to the beginning of the line (emacs editing mode). > > How do you all get around this problem? You can use the "Ctrl-A a" (minus a) keystroke, as described in the manual page: DEFAULT KEY BINDINGS C-a a (meta) Send the command character (C-a) to window. See escape command. -- Nicolas