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Re: Setting an escape character on the command line'
From: |
Will Maier |
Subject: |
Re: Setting an escape character on the command line' |
Date: |
Tue, 28 Jun 2005 06:52:54 -0500 |
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On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 11:15:07AM +0200, Michael Schroeder wrote:
> You probably have
>
> bind ^\
> bind \\
>
> somewhere in your (or the system's) screenrc file. Our example
> file contains this line because the default binding of the keys
> was to quit screen and so many users complained about killing
> their precious session by mistake.
Quite right; for some reason I thought that screen didn't read the $SYSSCREENRC
if one was found in the user's home directory. Binding ^\ to 'other' solved my
problem.
Why, though, does assigning the same escape from within screen cause the
expected
behavior (ie overrule bindings specified in *screenrc)? If the (only) problem
were the 'bind' clauses that I found in my $SYSSCREENRC, I would expect the
effect from both within and without screen to be the same.
Thanks for your help!
Will Maier