content/posts/screenrc-like-tmux.rst


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Make screen behave more like tmux
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:date: 2014-02-17 14:11
:tags: screen, tmux

I am using tmux on pretty much all hosts i control but all-too-often i need to
work on retarded hosts which only have screen installed.

I love to use ctrl-b because ctrl-a is the beginning of the line in default
bash keybindings. Here are my changes in ``~/.screenrc``

.. code-block:: bash
    
    # use ctrl-b as escape
    escape ^Bb
    # change title with ctrl-b - ,  (tmux-style)
    bind , title
    # sweet status bar
    caption always "%{= wk} %-w%{= KW} [% %t] %{-}%+w %= | @%H | %l | %Y-%m-%d %c "