Re: emacs compatibility - changing a default binding?
[email protected] (Henry S. Thompson)
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Joe Corneli <[email protected]> writes: >>From looking back at the archives (all the way to 1987), I see that ^A > has been the default command key for Screen from the beginning. I > know that this can be changed on a per-user or even per installation > basis, but I'm wondering whether that's the best approach, since users > will become familiar with the universal default. > > And yet, the default binding conflicts with the default binding C-a > for `move-beginning-of-line' in Emacs, which presumably affects many > users. Rather than have lots of different workarounds > (http://emacswiki.org/emacs/GnuScreen#toc1), might it make sense to > change the default binding? Hear hear! > (One of the users on the Emacs Wiki page suggests C-; but notes no > luck with experiments trying to bind it.) I have used Meta-A with success for some time: bindkey "^[a" command bindkey "^a" stuff b bindkey "^a" stuff ^a ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: [email protected] URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged spam]