Re: invoking <enter> in screen binding

On Wed, 26 Sep 2012, Eric Smith wrote:

> I have the following binding which works as I want it to.
> bind E eval copy 'stuff G' 'stuff Y' 'readreg q' colon 'stuff "!  command_foo "' ' paste "q^M"' '"^M"'

Try using \015 as the 'enter' string instead. No special ctrl chars
first, just that literal string of chars.

I've had mixed luck with the ^V^M vs \015 for sending the cr
char.  In my .screenrc, I use \015, but in scripts, I have
to use ^V^M.

> The command prints out on the screen "exrc" line with the
> argumant pasted from the screen buffer `q'.
> My problem is that I cannot make this command submit with a
> carriage return or enter despite the attempts you see with
> a cntrl-V <enter>
>
> Any clues as to how I can get the command to submit with the
> binding?
>
> Eric

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