Screen and Tmux

Posted Sep 12, 2024 18:08 UTC (Thu) by gutschke (subscriber, #27910)
In reply to: Screen and Tmux by mathstuf
Parent article: GNU Screen v.5.0.0 is released

Both Emacs and readline (e.g. bash) use ^A to jump the cursor to the beginning of the line. I press is many times a day -- in fact, I press it a lot more frequently than interacting with "screen"

Screen and Tmux

Posted Sep 12, 2024 20:40 UTC (Thu) by mbunkus (subscriber, #87248) [Link]

Nitpick & further info: in Emacs itself, readline's Emacs mode & similar tools[1] Ctrl+A is "move to beginning of line", Ctrl+B is "move one char backwards". readline can be switched to a vi mode, though.

[1] zsh has its own line editor implementation that while similar to readline is not actually readline. It does have both Emacs & vi modes, too, though.

Screen and Tmux

Posted Sep 13, 2024 12:15 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Ah, right emacs :) . I put everything I can into vi-alike mode, so such bindings are relegated to remoting into machines with broken terminfo databases where home/end or arrows don't work (I commonly on a laptop, so they're not too inaccessible). Luckily the latest macOS 14 now ships with a useful tmux entry in its terminfo database, so that is slowly disappearing as well ;) .