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Screen User's Manual

Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Getting Started
3. Invoking Screen
4. Customizing Screen

4.1 The `.screenrc' file
4.2 Colon

5. Commands

5.1 Default Key Bindings
5.2 Command Summary

6. New Window

6.1 Chdir
6.2 Screen Command
6.3 Setenv
6.4 Shell
6.5 Term
6.6 Window Types

7. Selecting a Window

7.1 Moving Back and Forth
7.2 Other Window
7.3 Select

8. Session Management Commands

8.1 Detach
8.2 Power Detach
8.3 Lock
8.4 Multiuser Session

8.4.1 Multiuser
8.4.2 Acladd
8.4.3 Aclchg
8.4.4 Acldel
8.4.5 Aclgrp
8.4.6 Displays
8.4.7 aclumask
8.4.8 Wall
8.4.9 Writelock
8.4.10 Su

8.5 Session Name
8.6 Suspend
8.7 Quit

9. Regions

9.1 Split
9.2 Focus
9.3 Only
9.4 Remove
9.5 Resize
9.6 Caption
9.7 Fit

10. Window Settings

10.1 Naming Windows (Titles)

10.1.1 Title Command
10.1.2 Dynamic Titles
10.1.3 Setting up your prompt for shell titles
10.1.4 Setting up shell titles in your `.screenrc'

10.2 Console
10.3 Kill
10.4 Login
10.5 Mode
10.6 Monitoring
10.7 Windows
10.8 Hardstatus

11. Virtual Terminal

11.1 Control Sequences
11.2 Input Translation
11.3 Digraph
11.4 Bell
11.5 Clear
11.6 Info
11.7 Redisplay
11.8 Wrap
11.9 Reset
11.10 Window Size
11.11 Character Processing

12. Copy and Paste

12.1 Copying

12.1.1 CR/LF
12.1.2 Scrollback
12.1.3 markkeys
12.1.4 Movement Keys
12.1.5 Marking
12.1.6 Repeat Count
12.1.7 Searching
12.1.8 Specials

12.2 Paste
12.3 Registers
12.4 Screen-Exchange
12.5 History

13. Subprocess Execution

13.1 Exec
13.2 Using Exec

14. Key Binding

14.1 The bind command
14.2 Examples of the bind command
14.3 Command Character
14.4 Help
14.5 Bindkey
14.6 Bindkey Examples
14.7 Bindkey Control

15. Flow Control

15.1 About screen flow control settings
15.2 Flow
15.3 XON and XOFF

16. Termcap

16.1 Choosing the termcap entry for a window
16.2 Write out the window's termcap entry
16.3 The termcap command
16.4 Termcap Examples
16.5 Special Terminal Capabilities
16.6 Autonuke
16.7 Obuflimit
16.8 Character Translation

17. The Message Line

17.1 Using the message line from your program
17.2 Hardware Status Line
17.3 Display Last Message
17.4 Message Wait

18. Logging

18.1 hardcopy
18.2 log

19. Startup

19.1 echo
19.2 sleep
19.3 Startup Message

20. Miscellaneous commands

20.1 At
20.2 Break
20.3 Debug
20.4 License
20.5 Nethack
20.6 Nonblock
20.7 Number
20.8 Silence
20.9 Time
20.10 Verbose
20.11 Version
20.12 Zombie
20.13 Printcmd
20.14 Sorendition
20.15 Attrcolor

21. String Escapes
22. Environment Variables
23. Files Referenced
24. Credits
25. Bugs

25.1 Known Bugs
25.2 Reporting Bugs
25.3 Availability

26. Installation

26.1 Socket Directory
26.2 Compiling Screen

Concept Index
Command Index
Keystroke Index