[Gllug] ed vs emacs/vi, was: ed vs emacs, was: OpenMoko Neo Freerunner

[David Damerell]

On Thursday, 14 May 2009, Matthew King wrote:
>James Hawtin <oolon at ankh.org> writes:
>>nohup however with screen you can monitor the status of your download. Then
>>there is the multiple screens, side-by-side mode, etc. It hardly has many
>>you need to know they all start with Ctrl-A. So its really does not have to
>>much impack on other program use.
>Therein lies problem 1 - C-a is a very useful keystroke which screen
>swallows and breaks with problem 2 - To pass an actual C-a you don't
>push C-a C-a, no, you push C-a a.

Surely everyone changes their screen magic key to something like ^] ?

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