screen: Default Key Bindings
5.1 Default Key Bindings
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As mentioned previously, each keyboard command consists of a 'C-a'
followed by one other character. For your convenience, all commands
that are bound to lower-case letters are also bound to their control
character counterparts (with the exception of 'C-a a'; see below).
Thus, both 'C-a c' and 'C-a C-c' can be used to create a window.
The following table shows the default key bindings:
'C-a ''
(select)
Prompt for a window identifier and switch. ⇒Selecting.
'C-a "'
(windowlist -b)
Present a list of all windows for selection. ⇒Selecting.
'C-a 0...9, -'
(select 0...select 9, select -)
Switch to window number 0...9, or the blank window. ⇒
Selecting.
'C-a <Tab>'
(focus)
Switch the input focus to the next region. ⇒Regions.
'C-a C-a'
(other)
Toggle to the window displayed previously. If this window does no
longer exist, 'other' has the same effect as 'next'. ⇒
Selecting.
'C-a a'
(meta)
Send the command character (C-a) to window. See 'escape' command.
⇒Command Character.
'C-a A'
(title)
Allow the user to enter a title for the current window. ⇒
Naming Windows.
'C-a b'
'C-a C-b'
(break)
Send a break to the tty. ⇒Break.
'C-a B'
(pow_break)
Close and reopen the tty-line. ⇒Break.
'C-a c'
'C-a C-c'
(screen)
Create a new window with a shell and switch to that window. ⇒
Screen Command.
'C-a C'
(clear)
Clear the screen. ⇒Clear.
'C-a d'
'C-a C-d'
(detach)
Detach 'screen' from this terminal. ⇒Detach.
'C-a D D'
(pow_detach)
Detach and logout. ⇒Power Detach.
'C-a f'
'C-a C-f'
(flow)
Cycle flow among 'on', 'off' or 'auto'. ⇒Flow.
'C-a F'
(fit)
Resize the window to the current region size. ⇒Fit.
'C-a C-g'
(vbell)
Toggle visual bell mode. ⇒Bell.
'C-a h'
(hardcopy)
Write a hardcopy of the current window to the file "hardcopy.N".
⇒Hardcopy.
'C-a H'
(log)
Toggle logging of the current window to the file "screenlog.N".
⇒Log.
'C-a i'
'C-a C-i'
(info)
Show info about the current window. ⇒Info.
'C-a k'
'C-a C-k'
(kill)
Destroy the current window. ⇒Kill.
'C-a l'
'C-a C-l'
(redisplay)
Fully refresh the current window. ⇒Redisplay.
'C-a L'
(login)
Toggle the current window's login state. ⇒Login.
'C-a m'
'C-a C-m'
(lastmsg)
Repeat the last message displayed in the message line. ⇒Last
Message.
'C-a M'
(monitor) Toggle monitoring of the current window. ⇒
Monitor.
'C-a <SPC>'
'C-a n'
'C-a C-n'
(next)
Switch to the next window. ⇒Selecting.
'C-a N'
(number)
Show the number (and title) of the current window. ⇒Number.
'C-a p'
'C-a C-p'
'C-a C-h'
'C-a <BackSpace>'
(prev)
Switch to the previous window (opposite of 'C-a n'). ⇒
Selecting.
'C-a q'
'C-a C-q'
(xon)
Send a ^Q (ASCII XON) to the current window. ⇒XON/XOFF.
'C-a Q'
(only)
Delete all regions but the current one. ⇒Regions.
'C-a r'
'C-a C-r'
(wrap)
Toggle the current window's line-wrap setting (turn the current
window's automatic margins on or off). ⇒Wrap.
'C-a s'
'C-a C-s'
(xoff)
Send a ^S (ASCII XOFF) to the current window. ⇒XON/XOFF.
'C-a S'
(split)
Split the current region horizontally into two new ones. ⇒
Regions.
'C-a t'
'C-a C-t'
(time)
Show the load average and xref. ⇒Time.
'C-a v'
(version)
Display the version and compilation date. ⇒Version.
'C-a C-v'
(digraph)
Enter digraph. ⇒Digraph.
'C-a w'
'C-a C-w'
(windows)
Show a list of active windows. ⇒Windows.
'C-a W'
(width)
Toggle between 80 and 132 columns. ⇒Window Size.
'C-a x'
'C-a C-x'
(lockscreen)
Lock your terminal. ⇒Lock.
'C-a X'
(remove)
Kill the current region. ⇒Regions.
'C-a z'
'C-a C-z'
(suspend)
Suspend 'screen'. ⇒Suspend.
'C-a Z'
(reset)
Reset the virtual terminal to its "power-on" values. ⇒
Reset.
'C-a .'
(dumptermcap)
Write out a '.termcap' file. ⇒Dump Termcap.
'C-a ?'
(help)
Show key bindings. ⇒Help.
'C-a \'
(quit)
Kill all windows and terminate 'screen'. ⇒Quit.
'C-a :'
(colon)
Enter a command line. ⇒Colon.
'C-a ['
'C-a C-['
'C-a <ESC>'
(copy)
Enter copy/scrollback mode. ⇒Copy.
'C-a ]'
'C-a C-]'
(paste .)
Write the contents of the paste buffer to the stdin queue of the
current window. ⇒Paste.
'C-a {'
'C-a }'
(history)
Copy and paste a previous (command) line. ⇒History.
'C-a >'
(writebuf)
Write the paste buffer out to the screen-exchange file. ⇒
Screen Exchange.
'C-a <'
(readbuf)
Read the screen-exchange file into the paste buffer. ⇒Screen
Exchange.
'C-a ='
(removebuf)
Delete the screen-exchange file. ⇒Screen Exchange.
'C-a _'
(silence)
Start/stop monitoring the current window for inactivity. ⇒
Monitor.
'C-a |'
(split -v)
Split the current region vertically into two new ones. ⇒
Regions.
'C-a ,'
(license)
Show the copyright page. ⇒License.
'C-a *'
(displays)
Show the listing of attached displays. ⇒Displays.