Re: emacs for everything?

[Kai Grossjohann]

Maciek Pasternacki <maciekp@japhy.fnord.org> writes:

> On Setting Orange, The Aftermath 38, 3170 YOLD, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
>
>>> Also, I don't like screen(1) eating my C-a which I use frequently to
>>> jump to beginning of line in shell.  After thinking about other
>>> binding to use, I realised that I use virtually every binding (since
>>> I learned Emacs I use the same bindings in shell).
>>
>> I use ` for screen, `` inserts a single ` character.  Works quite well.
>
> ...except when you try to paste a shell script from
> editor/browser/whatever.  Before I had ScreenTerm and could safely
> disable hotkey I also used backtick but strange things happening when
> pasting textwere annoying.

Yeah.  A friend uses C-o, perhaps that's better.  In a shell, you
don't use C-o that often, and for the few times, C-o o is good enough,
I think.

>> I started a screen daemon and changed my WM config so that all xterms
>> attach to the same daemon.  This means that the list of shell sessions
>> and the number of xterms I've got are decoupled.  Very useful.  I can
>> just create an xterm on demand to look at a shell session, then close
>> the xterm and the shell is still there.
>
> I prefer to run few screen sessions and have terminal windows
> independent of each other.  Of course I can run the same session in
> two windows but I like to have my net-related windows (irssi, ekg2,
> SSH sessions, gnus-agent-batch) in one screen and `development' shells
> (ones I temporarily use when programming) in second one, not
> interfering with each other.  If I used single screen for everything
> there'd be too much screen windows for me -- usually I use about 5
> screen windows per session; more than 8-9 shells in one screen is just
> confusing for me.

What's missing for screen is the equivalent of C-x b or iswitchb.

Kai