Re: a few qs about man page

Clark Wang <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.screen.user
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On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 4:21 AM, David Niklas <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
> I decided to take the time to read the man page (miracles DO happen), and
> I wanted to know more about a few config file options that were unclear to
> me.
>
> bce
> Why would you do this?
> register
> Poor description IMHO. What is it used for?
>

It's similar to Vim's registers. You can save a string to a register (named
by a char) and reference the register later. Try this in your screen
session:

:register a "echo hello world^M"
:paste a


>
> How do you remove bindings for keys?
> I want to make lockscreen only bound to ^a ^X .
>

Just bind the key to nothing. E.g.:

:bind x


>
> The stuff command is actually cool :)
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
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