If you're just getting starting with a screen multiplexer, I'd suggest starting with tmux. My understanding is that GNU screen has effectively been abandoned. I used GNU screen for at least 10 years, and recently switched to tmux. As someone else said, in GNU screen, if you want to send ctrl-a to your application (e.g. shell or emacs), you can do ctrl-a followed by a "naked" a. I found this becomes so second nature, for the rare time I'm not in screen/tmux, I habitually do the Ctrl-a a sequence! tmux's default "action" sequence is Ctrl-b. Even without my history of Ctrl-a muscle memory, I think I'd find Ctrl-b awkward. I briefly tried to get used to it so I could live without a custom tmux config file, but just couldn't do it. So, here's my small ~/.tmux.conf file: # remap Ctrl-b to Ctrl-a (to emulate behavior of GNU screen) unbind C-b set -g prefix C-a bind C-a send-prefix # use vi-like keybindings set-window-option -g mode-keys vi # emulate GNU screen's Ctrl-a a sequence to jump to beginning of # line bind a send-prefix On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 6:39 AM, xaos <xaos at darksmile.net> wrote: > Andrew, > > Don't do it man. Don't remap screen key sequences. > > I had the same issue. This is how I ultimately solved it. > I mentally trained myself to think of screen > as a room that I need to do a Ctrl-A in order to get in there. > > So, for bash, It is NOT a big deal anyway. Train your fingers to do a > Ctrl-A then a > > It is just one extra keystroke. > > I got used to it within a week. > > -George > On 10/30/15 7:13 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: >> >> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 10:53:29AM +0100, Andrew Holway wrote: >>> >>> Hey >>> >>> I like to use Ctrl+A and Ctrl+E a lot to navigate my insane big bash one >>> liners but this is incompatible with Screen which has a binding to >>> Ctrl-A. >>> Is it possible to move the screen binding so I can have the best of both >>> worlds? >> >> If you only make simple use of screen, then there's always tmux. It uses >> ctl+b by default, and one of the reasons is the issue you mention. >> >> (If you have a lot of complex uses of screen, then it becomes a bigger >> deal >> to learn the new keyboard shortcuts, but many people just use it's attach >> and deteach feature, and relearning those in tmux takes a few minutes.) >> >> If you are interested in trying it, I have my own very simple page with >> links to a better page at http://srobb.net/screentmux.html >> > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos