Shift-PgUp and screen

[Phil!Gregory]

I stopped using my xterms' scrollback buffers a while ago, because when I
switched screen windows a lot the xterm's scrollback got very jumbled.
Still, I missed the convenience of just pressing Shift-PgUp to get to that
scrollback buffer.  I finally figured out a nice solution, which I'm
documenting here in case anyone else is interested.  I put the following
in my ~/.Xresources:

  XTerm.vt100.translations: #override \n\
      Shift <Key>Prior:string(0x1b) string("[5;2~") \n\
      Shift <Key>Next:string(0x1b) string("[6;2~")

That forces xterm to pass the keys through to apps running within.  I then
put this in my .screenrc:

  bindkey "^[[5;2~" eval "copy" "stuff ^b"
  bindkey -m "^[[5;2~" stuff ^b
  bindkey -m "^[[6;2~" stuff ^f

Outside copy mode, Shift-PgUp enters copy mode and does a page up.  Once
in copy mode, it merely does a page up.  A simple solution, once I
remembered bindkey's -m option.

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