GNU Screen is great.
But, after half a year of using it, I've only now figured out how to
scroll into screen's buffer (courtesy of
this tutorial). Normally, I just use SHIFT+PGUP to scroll
up in urxvt's buffer. However, if I have two regions in screen, this
doesn't work. To scroll in screen's buffer, I need to enter "copy mode".
To do this, type C-a [ or
C-a ESC. (The latter options works great for me
because I bound the prefix key to the backtick key instead of
C-a.) Once in "copy mode", I can scroll using the
arrow keys or PGUP/PGDOWN keys. To exit "copy mode", I press ESC. Scrolling
within screen's buffer instead of urxvt's also prevents me from losing my
place in my scrollback buffer when I switch screen "windows" (terminal
sessions).
Other notes:
C-a S splits into two regionsC-a tab switches input focus to the next regionC-a X kills the current regionC-a :resize numlines resizes
the current region to numlines lines.If you don't want to hit C-a ESC PGUP everytime to page up,
you can create keyboard shortcuts. I use CTRL+K to scroll up one line and META+K to
scroll up one page (I know these are kind of weird key combinations). To create these
shortcuts, I put the following in my .screenrc.
bindkey "^[k" eval "copy" "stuff ^b" # enter copy mode and move up one page bindkey "^k" eval "copy" "stuff k" # enter copy mode and move up one line bindkey -m "^[k" stuff ^b # move up one page bindkey -m "^k" stuff k # move up one line
Now, when I'm in screen and press M-k, screen enters copy mode and
scrolls up one page. Likewise, C-k enters copy mode and scrolls up one line.
As before, to exit copy mode, hit ESC.
Thanks to this GNU Screen cheat-sheet.
C-a [ or C-a ESCESC to exit scrollback mode.C-a ] to paste.thank you
Thank you very much!
Here's a good tip I got from Joan via email. It explains how to use a screen session nested in another screen session.
Situation: I opened the screen in my local machine, and then I connected to a remote server and reattached a screen session. Do you know how can a switch to a
3 bash,4 bash, ... (blue) into the remote server? when I type: Cntrl+a a or Cntrl+a 1, 2, 3 and so on, only switches into the grey (local) screen. [0 bashand1 bash]
Joan's solution:
Use
Cntrl+a a pandCntrl+a a nto go to previous/next windows. For example, if you had 3 screens on inside other, then you would doCntrl+a a a petc.
The another way is to tell screen to use terminal emulator buffer. To do so one should place string like that in screenrc
$ cat ~/.screenrc:
termcapinfo xterm|xterms|xs|rxvt ti@:te@
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