Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> writes: > On Aug 14, 2016, at 7:37 PM, Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote: > >> Also, I'm not sure whether we have any input methods which might be >> confused by ^A being “eaten” by screen. Does anyone know? > > Yes… That’s a problem if you’re used to using “screen” as a terminal > emulator to access the serial port on the target machine. When > testing this, I had to use “cu” to connect to the serial port of my > SheevaPlug for this reason. Normally, I use screen for that. It woke > that way, incidentally, so it’s not a show-stopper, just worth > mentioning. You don't actually need to resort to cu in that case, since you can type ``Ctrl-A a'' to send a Ctrl-A to the remote end. If you find that too cumbersome, you can redefine screen's escape character, either on the command line (-e) or with the escape command via screen's command line mode (entered via Ctrl-A :), at which point you can issue, e.g.: escape ^Bb which defines the control character to be Ctrl-B instead (as used by tmux, which I greatly prefer because my fingers are used to being able to use Ctrl-A for jumping to the start of the line) If you wanted to make that change at the remote end, you'd use: Ctrl-A a : to get to the remote screen's command line, instead. > Rick Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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