Re: can not change the `screen' command character to `^q'

[Bob Proulx]

tianlijian wrote:
> can not change the `screen' command character to `^q'

This question is better addressed on the screen-users mailing list.

Please place your report in the body with a suitable subject and not
with your problem entirely in the subject.  That is just hard to read
that way.

The control-q is being consumed by the tty driver since it is the
default flow control setting.  Screen is being configured but then
isn't able to use it.

Using control-q probably isn't the best choice since it is the default
XON flow control character for the tty driver.  In order to use it you
would need either disable flow control (see the -fn option, or the
defflow) or change your tty settings.  Both of those seem like bad
ideas to me.

But if you insist on trying this anyway then this should do it:

  defflow off
  escape ^q^q

My advice is to pick a different character.  Personally I use ^z myself.
As a long time emacs user the default ^a is too invasive.

Bob