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

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On 14 May 2009, David Damerell verbalised:

> 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 ^] ?

I tend to flip it to ^O, because `open-line' really isn't a very useful
binding of that in Emacs (given that RET C-b does the same thing).
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