Re: I need a screen saver

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From: Chris Devers
Subject: Re: I need a screen saver
Date: 01:22 on 16 Jan 2007
On Jan 15, 2007, at 10:25 AM, Peter da Silva wrote:

> Screen is a solution to so much hate, yes, I just get so tired of  
> "Woof Woof".

I can't stand that it wants to steal ctrl+A, which a decade of finger- 
memory with Pine / readline / Cocoa / etc has trained me to  
inextricably associate with "jump to start of the current line"  
rather than "dump into shocking & surprising meta-cmmand mode,  
completely eradicating your line of thought."

It's particularly fun as I usually don't realize I've jumped into  
"interact with screen" mode rather than "just plain typing", so I  
have to go back and re-read everything I had written to see if any of  
it survived intact. And since I'm usually reaching for ^A / ^E / etc  
style jump-around-the-line trickery when I'm trying to cope with a  
slow link, it gets all the better.

Yes, I fully realize that I could get around this by editing a  
~/.screenrc, but software that gets off to such a bumpy, boneheaded  
start seems like a recipe for too much pain to be worth the trouble.  
I've managed without it so far, and I've yet to be convinced that it  
solves more hate than it generates...


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Chris Devers

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