Re: Alternate binding for C-a

[Jonathan Groll]

On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 11:11:15AM +0200, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> willwillis <will.willis@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I've attempted several times to change C-a ( beginning-of-line ) to M-a. Does
> > anyone know the elisp I'd need to put in my .emacs to make this change?
> >
> > (yes, I use screen if you were wondering why'd I'd want to do such a thing)
>
> In screen, type: C-a :escape ^Z^Z RET   (type caret and Z, caret and Z)
> This change screen's escape to C-z, which is bound to
> iconify-or-deiconify-frame, useless in screen.
I personally find this binding works best in my ~/.screenrc :

#Press backtick twice if you want a backtick, else its the command character
escape ``

Cheers,
Jonathan