Re: Setting an escape character on the command line'

[Michael Schroeder]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 06:52:54AM -0500, Will Maier wrote:
> Why, though, does assigning the same escape from within screen cause the 
> expected
> behavior (ie overrule bindings specified in *screenrc)? If the (only) problem
> were the 'bind' clauses that I found in my $SYSSCREENRC, I would expect the
> effect from both within and without screen to be the same.

Setting the escape character does an implicit bind for the "other" and
"meta" command. It's just a problem of the order: if you do it in
screen, the screenrc file is already processed.

Cheers,
  Michael.

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