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Re: screen messing with tab completion and other annoyances



John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au> writes:

> Jorge Santos wrote:
>
>>Travis Crump <pretzalz@techhouse.org> writes:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Jorge Santos wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hello, I've searched for these but I can't find an answer:
>>>>Screen, as configured by default, uses <tab> <tab> two switch
>>>>windows,
>>>>but this is annoying since it blocks tab completion for the shell and
>>>>I can't find anything in the documentation about how to turn this off
>>>>(or even that this binding exists).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Huh?  Screen by default uses <Ctrl-a><Ctrl-a> to switch windows[at
>>>least in english/C]
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Mmmh, I changed screen's prefix to <Ctrl-i> and for some reason that
>>made tab also the prefix (does anyone knows why?), well that [sorta]
>>fixes one of the problems.
>>
>>
>>
> Twit!!
> And what do you suppose ^I is? TAB!
>

 [AE]sop minds men of their errors, without twitting them for what is
 amiss. --L'Estrange.


... and maybe you should do that much. :-)

regards,
jorge



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