Screen and VI

[Jerry McAllister]

> > >
> > > Anyone know why, while in screen if i move the cursor (arrow key on
> > > keyboard) right i get the letter C ? (inside vi)
> >
> > Probably the arrow key sends ESC-C as its code.  something eats the ESC
> > and that leaves C.
> 
> > Maybe someone else will know the actuall setting information.
> 
> I usually fire up screen(1) in my console ttys or xterm windows, and
> then set TERM=vt220.  This is monochrome, but all the arrow keys work
> fine.  I even managed to make ALL the special keys like Insert, DEL,
> Home, End, PageDown and PageUp to work 'as expected' in Emacs with the
> following bindings in my .emacs file:


Whew,  You're more ambitious than I am.   I just learned to
use the letter keys to do all that.     See:

             http://scnc.k12.mi.us/howto/edit/vi.html

for the notes we foist on our users.

////jerry

> 
>     ;; Key bindings.
>     (global-set-key "\C-c,"  'goto-line)
>     (global-set-key "\C-cw"  'delete-trailing-whitespace)
>     (global-set-key "\C-xrs" 'bookmark-save)
>     (global-set-key "\C-s" 'isearch-forward-regexp)
>     (global-set-key "\C-r" 'isearch-backward-regexp)
> 
>     ;; Some bindings to make using Emacs nicer on vt220 terminals.
>     (global-set-key "\C-h"          'backward-delete-char)
>     (global-set-key [delete]        'delete-char)
>     (global-set-key [deletechar]    'backward-delete-char)
>     (global-set-key "\M-\C-h"       'backward-kill-word)
>     (global-set-key [home]          'beginning-of-line)
>     (global-set-key [find]          'beginning-of-line)
>     (global-set-key [end]           'end-of-line)
>     (global-set-key [select]        'end-of-line)
> 
> - Giorgos