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Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by surki on Monday September 28, 2009 @03:18PM (#849022)
` cannot be used since in terminal C + ` or C + SPC or C + @ translates into same thing(only allowed characters are @ [ \ ] ^ and _ ). I personally prefer using \
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Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by silentbicycle on Monday September 28, 2009 @03:24PM (#849034)
Oh, I'm using just ` , not C-`. It's like hitting ESC in vi. (I also noticed that space and shift-space are indistinguishable, which is a bit annoying because in Emacs I use S-spc for languages with lots_of_soft_spacing or-several-words-joined-with-dashes.)
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Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by cturner on Monday September 28, 2009 @04:26PM (#849163)
Readers - I found the .screenrc change for this not-entirely-obvious. You need to say escape ``

whereas you'd have thought it would be just escape `

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Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by silentbicycle on Monday September 28, 2009 @04:52PM (#849205)
The second character doesn't have to be another ` - that option controls what you type for an unescaped version of your meta key. I use

  escape `~
and reserve `` for switching to the most recently used window. (It looks like I didn't need to specify that explicitly.)
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