Screen VT100 ANSI Terminal Emulator

Screen VT100/ANSI Terminal Emulator Cheat Sheet Default Keyboard Shortcuts Shortcut Command Description C-a ’ select Prompt for a window name or number to switch to. C-a ” windowlist -b Present a list of all windows for selection. C-a 0. . . 9 select 0. . . select 9 Switch to window number 0. . . 9. C-a - select - Switch to the blank window. C-a [TAB] focus Switch the input focus to the next region. C-a C-a other Toggle to the window displayed previously. C-a a meta Send the command character (C-a) to window. C-a A title Allow the user to enter a name for the current window. C-a b C-a C-b break Send a break to window. C-a B pow break Reopen the terminal line and send a break. C-a c C-a C-c screen Create a new window with a shell and switch to that window. C-a C clear Clear the screen. C-a d C-a C-d detach Detach screen from this terminal. C-a D D pow detach Detach and logout. C-a f C-a C-f flow Toggle flow on, off or auto. C-a F fit Resize the window to the current region size. C-a C-g vbell Toggles screen’s visual bell mode. C-a h hardcopy Write a hardcopy of the current window to the file ”hardcopy.n”. C-a H log Begins/ends logging of the current window to the file ”screen- log.n”. C-a i C-a C-i info Show info about this window. C-a k C-a C-k kill Destroy current window. C-a l C-a C-l redisplay Fully refresh current window. C-a L login Toggle this windows login slot. Available only if screen is config- ured to update the utmp database. C-a m C-a C-m lastmsg Repeat the last message displayed in the message line. C-a M monitor Toggles monitoring of the current window. C-a [space] C-a n C-a C-n next Switch to the next window. C-a N number Show the number (and title) of the current window. C-a [back-space] C-a h C-a p C-a C-p prev Switch to the previous window (opposite of C-a n). c© 2007 Peteris Krumins (peter@catonmat.net) http://www.catonmat.net - good coders code, great reuse Shortcut Command Description C-a q C-a C-q xon Send a control-q to the current window. C-a Q only Delete all regions but the current one. C-a r C-a C-r wrap Toggle the current window’s line-wrap setting (turn the current window’s automatic margins on and off). C-a s C-a C-s xoff Send a control-s to the current window. C-a S split Split the current region into two new ones. C-a t C-a C-t time Show system information. C-a v version Display the version and compilation date. C-a C-v digraph Enter digraph. C-a w C-a C-w windows Show a list of window. C-a W width Toggle 80/132 columns. C-a x C-a C-x lockscreen Lock this terminal. C-a X remove Kill the current region. C-a z C-a C-z suspend Suspend screen. Your system must support BSD-style job-control. C-a Z reset Reset the virtual terminal to its ”power-on” values. C-a . dumptermcap Write out a ”.termcap” file. C-a ? help Show key bindings. C-a C-\ quit Kill all windows and terminate screen. C-a : colon Enter command line mode. C-a [ C-a C-[ C-a [ESC] copy Enter copy/scrollback mode. C-a ] paste . Write the contents of the paste buffer to the stdin queue of the current window. C-a { C-a } history Copy and paste a previous (command) line. C-a > writebuf Write paste buffer to a file. C-a < readbuf Reads the screen-exchange file into the paste buffer. C-a = removebuf Removes the file used by C-a < and C-a >. C-a , license Shows where screen comes from, where it went to and why you can use it. C-a silence Start/stop monitoring the current window for inactivity. C-a * displays Show a listing of all currently attached displays. c© 2007 Peteris Krumins (peter@catonmat.net) http://www.catonmat.net - good coders code, great reuse